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Still the second sex? Simone de Beauvoir centenary ; She was the feminist icon who seduced her female students before passing them on to her male lover. John Lichfield reports on the magazine cover which has reignited an issue close to her heart: female equality in France
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The publication this week of a female bottom on the cover of a
serious news magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, has caused,
nevertheless, something of a stir. The bare bottom belonged to
Simone de Beauvoir, writer, philosopher and seculargoddess of
feminism, who was born 100 years ago today.
One feminist organisation complained that, by illustrating the
centenary of Mme de Beauvoir's birth with a nude photograph taken in
1952, the intelligent, centre-left magazine had "assaulted the
dignity of women".
Sixty years after she wrote one of the most influential feminist
books, Le Deuxieme Sexe, Simone ...
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Consciousness across cultures: a response to Bina Gupta's CIT Consciousness.(COMMENT AND DISCUSSION)
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; In recent years, consciousness has reemerged from the nether world...for this shift in the status of consciousness studies. For one, neuroscience...there has been a spate of books on consciousness by eminent scientists and philosophers...
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CONSCIOUSNESS OUTSIDE THE HEAD
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Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and the Science of Being Human.(Book review)
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Consciousness and self-consciousness.
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; What is the relation between consciousness and self-consciousness? In recent philosophy of mind, we are accustomed...Yet she is very clearly conscious. Therefore, consciousness can occur in the absence of self-consciousness...
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Consciousness studies: the view from psychology.(Consciousness: A User's Guide)(Mirror Neurons and the Evolution of Brain and Language)(Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem)(Consciousness: An Introduction)(Book review)
Magazine article from: British Journal of Psychology
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Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue with Japanese Thinkers.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Philosophy East and West
; Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue...50. Paper $20.95. Mystical Consciousness: Western Perspectives and Dialogue...array of thinkers on the subject of consciousness, self-reflective consciousness...
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Consciousness Is Nothing But a Word
Magazine article from: Skeptic
; ...DANIEL DENNETT PUBUSHED HIS tome, Consciousness Explained.1 Yet, ten years later...article titled "Are We Explaining Consciousness Yet?"2 If he had to ask die question...psychologists have been trying to understand consciousness at least since John Locke introduced...
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Consciousness is nothing but a word.
Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA)
; ...DANIEL DENNETT PUBLISHED HIS tome, Consciousness Explained. (1) Yet, ten years later...article titled "Are We Explaining Consciousness Yet?" (2) If he had to ask the...psychologists have been trying to understand consciousness at least since John Locke introduced...
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Against consciousness chauvinism.(Report)
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Consciousness as knowingness.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Monist
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