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Phenomenology and the ethical bases of pluralism

Arendt and Beauvoir on race in the United States

Michael Barber

pp. 149-174

Though differing in their approach to race in the United States, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir work on two different levels of a philosophical-ethical spectrum, paralleling Husserl's distinction between the transcendental and pretheoretical, life-world levels. Each level needs the other in order to realize an authentic sociopolitical pluralism.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9753-1_9

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Barber, M. (2001)., Phenomenology and the ethical bases of pluralism: Arendt and Beauvoir on race in the United States, in L. Embree (ed.), The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 149-174.

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