Ep. 234: Beauvoir on Romance in "The Second Sex" (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex (1949): "The Woman in Love" and "Myths" with guest Jennifer Hansen. What is love under patriarchy? We all want to achieve solidity in another's eyes, but the Othered woman wants to live through the man, and the man sees the woman as his rejected corporeal character. Party time!
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| 0:16.5 | You're listening to The Partially Examined Life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point |
| 0:20.3 | set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:23.1 | Our question for episode 234 is something like what is romance? |
| 0:27.5 | And we're continuing the exploration of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex from 1949 |
| 0:32.0 | that we started in episode 232. |
| 0:34.8 | This time covering Chapter 12 from Volume 2 Part 3 called The Woman in Love |
| 0:39.3 | and supplementing that with Chapter 1 of Volume 1 Part 3 called Myths. |
| 0:44.0 | For more information please visit partiallyexaminedlife.com. |
| 0:47.5 | This is Mark Linton Meyer, a primordial being that was split in half and then in half and then in half again |
| 0:53.0 | forever trying to find all seven of my soulmates in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:57.0 | Wow, this is Seth Pascon reconciling a basement and a steam in Austin, Texas. |
| 1:02.5 | This is Wes Haul one never abandoning myself to the repose of eminence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:08.8 | This is Dylan Casey in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:11.5 | This is Jenny Hanson, hoping that authentic love is possible for a woman in Canton, New York. |
| 1:21.0 | Well, welcome back Jenny. |
| 1:22.0 | Thank you so much for joining us for another Go With This. |
| 1:25.0 | It's a pleasure. I had such a great time last time. |
| 1:27.5 | My voice is going to be a little not itself. |
| 1:31.0 | Should we take a poll? So Wes, I know you're sick, right? |
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