Modern French Thinkers, Further Reading
Further recommendations welcomed
GENERAL READING
FIESER, James, and Bradley DOWDEN, eds, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Martin, TN: University of Tennessee at
Martin), n.d. <http://www.iep.utm.edu/>
KEMERLING, Garth, Philosophy Pages (1997–2012) <http://www.philosophypages.com/index.htm>)
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GENERAL READING
CHANDLER, Daniel, Semiotics: The Basics. 2nd edn (Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2007). P99.C4 and e-book
COOPER, David E., Existentialism: A Reconstruction. 2nd edn (Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999). B819.C6
CROWELL, Steven, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Existentialism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012). e-book
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
ANDERSON, Thomas C., The Foundation and Structure of Sartrean Ethics (Lawrence, KS: Regents Press of Kansas, 1979).
B2430.S24 – store
BAIASU, Sorin, Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). e-book
COOMBES, Sam, The Early Sartre and Marxism (Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2008). B2430.S24
COX, Gary, Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2006). B2430.S24
KREMER-MARIETTI, Angèle, Jean-Paul Sartre et le désir d’être: une lecture de ‘L’Être et le Néant’ (Paris: Harmattan, 2005).
B2430.S24
LEAK, Andrew N., Jean-Paul Sartre. Critical Lives (London : Reaktion, 2006). PQ2638.A74
LINSENBARD, Gail Evelyn, Starting with Sartre (London and New York: Continuum, 2010). B2430.S24
O’DONOHOE, Benedict, ed., Severally Seeking Sartre (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). e-book
POELLNER, Peter, ‘Early Sartre on Freedom and Ethics’, European Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming); early view, DOI:
10.1111/j.1468-0378.2012.00532.x
RAE, Gavin, Realizing Freedom: Hegel, Sartre and the Alienation of Human Being (Basingstoke:, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
e-book
SARTRE, Jean-Paul, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (1957. London
and New York: Routledge, 2005). B2430.S23 and online text
—, L’Être et le Néant: essai d’ontologie phénomenologique. Collection Tel (1943. Paris: Gallimard, 1976). B2430.S23
SIMONT, Juliette, ‘Sartrean Ethics’, in The Cambridge Companion to Sartre, ed. by Christina Howells (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992), pp. 178–210. B2430.S24 and online text
WEBBER, Jonathan, The Existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre (New York: Routledge, 2009). B2430.S24
—, ed., Reading Sartre: On Phenomenology and Existentialism (London and New York: Routledge, 2011). B2430.S24
ROLAND BARTHES
CALVET, Louis Jean, Roland Barthes 1915–1980 (Paris: Flammarion, 1990). PQ95.B24
—, trans. by Sarah Wykes: Roland Barthes: A Biography (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995). PQ95.B24
CULLER, Jonathan, Barthes (Glasgow: Fontana, 1983) (PQ 95.B24)
DE MAN, Paul, ‘Roland Barthes and the Limits of Structuralism’, in Reading the Archive: On Texts and Institutions, Yale French
Studies, 77 (1990), 177–90
DUBOIS, Philippe C., ‘Barthes et l’image’, The French Review, 72:4 (1999), 676–86
EDMUNDSON, Mark, ‘Criticism and Class Consciousness’, American Literary History, 2:3 (1990), 564–79
HANANIA, Cécile. Roland Barthes et l’étymologie (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2010). PQ95.B24
HAWKES, Terence, Structuralism and Semiotics (1977. London: Routledge, 1991). PN96.S8
JOUVE, Vincent, La Littérature selon Roland Barthes (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1986. PQ95.B24
KNIGHT, Diana, Barthes and Utopia: Space, Travel, Writing (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997) (Q 95.B24)
LAVERS, Annette, Roland Barthes, Structuralism and After (London: Methuen, 1982), PQ95.B24
LEAK, Andrew, Barthes, Mythologies (London: Grant and Cutler, 1994). PQ95.B24
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MORIARTY, Michael, Roland Barthes (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1991). PQ 95.B24
Mythologies at 50: Barthes and Popular Culture, Nottingham French Studies, 47: 2 (2008)
SOYINKA, Wole, ‘The Critic and Society: Barthes, Leftocracy, and Other Mythologies’, in Black Textual Strategies, Volume 1:
Theory, Black American Literature Forum, 15:4 (1981), 133–46
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
BELLEFLEUR, Michel, ‘Travail et loisir: du loisir antique au loisir contemporain’, Philosophiques, 8: 2 (1981), 303–41
DEERY, June, Consuming Reality: The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
HF6146.T42.D44 and e-book
GENOSKO, Gary, Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze (London: Routledge, 1994). H6600.B2
GRACE, Victoria, Baudrillard’s Challenge: A Feminist Reading (New York: Routledge, 2000). HB6022.B2
International Journal of Baudrillard Studies
MERRIN, William, Baudrillard and the Media: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2005).
HB6022.B2
PAWLETT, William, Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality (London and New York: Routledge, 2007). HM477.F8P38
—, Violence, Society and Radical Theory: Bataille, Baudrillard and Contemporary Society (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013). e-book
RAJAN, Tilottama, Deconstruction and the Remainders of Phenomenology: Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard (Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press, 2002). B842.R2
SMITH, Richard G., The Baudrillard Dictionary (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010). e-book
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GENERAL READING
AINSLEY, Alison, ‘French Feminist Philosophy: de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray, Le Doeuff, Cixous’, in Twentieth-Century
Continental Philosophy, ed. by Richard Kearney. The Routledge History of Philosophy, vol. 8 (London: Routledge, 1994),
409–40
DUCHEN, Claire, Feminism in France: From May ’68 to Mitterrand (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986). HQ1613.D8
and e-book
—, ed. and trans., French Connections: Voices from the Women’s Movement in France (London: Hutchinson, 1987).
HQ1617.F74
—, Women’s Rights and Women’s Lives in France, 1944–1968 (London: Routledge, 1994, ppk 2013). HQ1613.D82
—, and Irene BANDHAUER-SCHÖFFMANN, eds, When the War was Over: Women, War and Peace in Europe, 1940–1956
(London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2000). HQ1587.W49
OLIVER, Kelly, and Lisa Walsh, Contemporary French Feminism (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
HQ1613.C745
MOI, Toril, ed., French Feminist Thought: A Reader (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987). HQ1617.F75
—, Sexual-textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory (London: Methuen, 1985, repr. London: Routledge, 1988). PN96.F3
SARUP, Madan, An Introductory Guide to Post-structuralism and Post-modernism (New York and London: Harvester
Wheatsheaf, 1988). B842.S2
SCOTT, Joan Wallach, Parité! Sexual Equality and the Crisis of French Universalism (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago
Press, 2005). HQ1236.5.F8S36
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
Nancy, ‘Must We Read Simone de Beauvoir?’, in The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. by Emily R. Grosholz
(Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 115–35. PQ2603.D64
BERGOFFEN, Debra B., The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities. SUNY
Feminist Philosophy (New York: State University of New York Press, 1996). B2430.B34
CARD, Claudia, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Simone De Beauvoir. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003). PQ2603.D64 and e-book
CONTAT, Michel, ‘How Sartre and Beauvoir Worked Together’, in Jean-Paul Sartre: Mind and Body, Word and Deed, ed. by
by Jean-Pierre Boulé and Benedict O’Donohoe (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011), pp. 71–93. B2430.S24
DAIGLE, Christine, and Jacob GOLOMB, eds, Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence (Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 2009). PQ2603.D64
DE BEAUVOIR, Simone, Le Deuxième Sexe, t. 2: L’expérience vécue. Folio essais, 38 (1949. Paris: Gallimard, 1986).
HQ1208.B43
—, Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté. Collection Essais, 26. 6th edn (Paris: Gallimard, 1947). BJ1011.B3 – store
BAUER,
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—, trans. Bernard Frechtman, The Ethics of Ambiguity (1948. New York: Carol, 1991). BJ1011.B3
FELSTINER, Mary Lowenthal, ‘Seeing The Second Sex through the Second Wave.’ Feminist Studies, 6:2 (1980), 247–76
FUCHS, Jo-Ann P., ‘Female Eroticism in The Second Sex.’ Feminist Studies, 6:2 (1980), 304–13
FULLBROOK, Edward, and Kate Fullbrook, Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction. Key Contemporary Thinkers (Oxford:
Polity Press, 1997). HC8722.F8
GALSTER, Ingrid, Beauvoir dans tous ses états (Paris: Tallendier, 2007). PQ2603.D64
GREEN, Karen, and Nicholas ROFFEY, ‘Women, Hegel, and Recognition in The Second Sex’, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy, 25:2 (2010), 276–93
GROSHOLZ, Emily R., ed., The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004). PQ2603.D64
HATCHER, Donald L., Understanding ‘The Second Sex’ (New York: Peter Lang, 1984). HQ1208.B43.H37
HEINAMAA, Sara, ‘Simone de Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Sexual Difference’, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy,
14 (1999), 114–132
—, Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir (Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Rowman
and Littlefield, 2003). B2430.B344
—, ‘What is a Woman? Butler and Beauvoir on the Foundations of the Sexual Difference’, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy, 12 (1997), 20–39
HOLVECK, Eleanore, Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics (Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). B2430.B344
IMBERT, Claude, ‘Simone De Beauvoir: A Woman Philosopher in the Context of her Generation’, in The Legacy of Simone de
Beauvoir, ed. Emily R. Grosholz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 3–21. PQ2603.D64
KAUFMANN, Dorothy, ‘Simone de Beauvoir: Questions of Difference & Generation’, Yale French Studies, 72: Simone de
Beauvoir – Witness to a Century (1986), 121–31
—, ‘Simone de Beauvoir, “The Second Sex”, and Jean-Paul Sartre’, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 5:2
(Winter, 1979), 209–223
KRUKS, Sonia, ‘Gender and Subjectivity: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism’, Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society, 18:1 (Autumn, 1992), 89–110
LE DOEUFF, Michèle, ‘Beauvoir the Mythoclast’, Paragraph: The Journal of the Modern Critical Theory Group, 33:1 (2010),
90–104
—, ‘Beauvoir the Mythoclast: Panel Discussion’, Paragraph: The Journal of the Modern Critical Theory Group, 33:1 (2010),
105–124
—, ‘Towards a Friendly, Transatlantic Critique of The Second Sex’, in The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. by Emily R.
Grosholz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), 22–36. PQ2603.D64
—, ‘Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits to Freedom’, Social Text, 17 (1987), 111–22
MAHON, Joseph, Existentialism, Feminism, and Simone de Beauvoir (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997). PQ2603.D64 and e-book
MOI, Toril, ‘Ambiguity and Alienation in The Second Sex’, in Feminism and Postmodernism, special issue of Boundary 2, 19:2
(1992), 96–112
—, ‘Existentialism and Feminism: The Rhetoric of Biology in the Second Sex’, Oxford Literary Review, 8 (1986), 88–95
—, Feminist Theory and Simone De Beauvoir: A Reader. Bucknell Lectures in Literary Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990).
PQ2603.D64
—, ‘Meaning What We Say: The “Politics of Theory” and the Responsibility of Intellectuals’, in The Legacy of Simone de
Beauvoir, ed. Emily R. Grosholz (Clarendon Press, 2004), 139–60. PQ2603.D64
—, Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, 2nd edn (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
2008). PQ2603.D64
—, ‘While We Wait: The English Translation of The Second Sex.’ Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 27:4
(Summer, 2002), 1005–35; repr. in The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. Emily R. Grosholz (Clarendon Press, 2004),
37–68. PQ2603.D64
PILARDI, Jo-Ann, Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography. Contributions in Philosophy
(Westport, CT, and London: Greenwood Press, 1998). PQ2603.D64
SCHWARZER, Alice, Simone de Beauvoir Today: Conversations 1972–1982, trans. by Marianne Howarth (London: Chatto &
Windus, 1984). PQ2603.D6
SIMONS, Margaret A., ‘Beauvoir and Sartre: The Philosophical Relationship’, Simone de Beauvoir: Witness to a Century – Yale
French Studies, 72 (1986), 165–79
—, Beauvoir and ‘The Second Sex’: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
HC8722.B3
—, ed., The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006).
B2430.B344
—, ‘Sexism & the Philosophical Canon: On Reading Beauvoir’s The Second Sex’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 51:3 (1990),
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VINTGES, Karen, Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir, trans. by Anne Lavelle (Bloomington, IN:
Indiana University Press, 1996). PQ2603.D64
—, ‘Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Thinker for Our Times’, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir – Hypatia: A Journal of
Feminist Philosophy, 14: 4, Special Issue (1999), 133–44
Reviews of Parshley’s The Second Sex
KLUCKHOHN, Clyde, ‘The Female of Our Species’, The New York Times, 22 February 1953, pdf facsimile from ProQuest
Historical Newspapers; transcription on Mona Lisa Smile
MANGUS, A. R., Marriage and Family Living, 15:3 (1953), 276–67
Reviews of Borde and Malovany-Chevallier’s The Second Sex
MOI, Toril, ‘The Adulteress Wife’, London Review of Books, 32: 3 (11 February 2010), 3–6
<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n03/toril-moi/the-adulteress-wife>
SMITH, Joan, ‘The Second Sex, by Simone de Beauvoir, trans. Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier’, The
Independent (18 December 2009), <http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-second-sex-bysimone-de-beauvoir-trans-constance-borde--sheila-malovanychevallier-1843614.html>
LUCE IRIGARAY
BERG, Maggie, ‘Luce Irigaray’s “Contradictions”: Poststructuralism and Feminism’, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and
Society 17: 1 (1991), 50–70
BERGER, Anne-Emmanuelle, ‘The Newly Veiled Woman: Irigaray, Specularity, and the Islamic Veil’, in Irigaray and the
Political Future of Sexual Difference, Diacritics, 28:1 (1998), 93–119
BULLOCK, Barbara E., ‘On the Use of ils for elles: Gender Syncretism in the History of French’, The French Review, 74:4
(2001), 700–09
BURKE, Carolyn, Naomi SCHOR, and Margaret WHITFORD, eds, Engaging with Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy and Modern
European Thought (New York : Columbia University Press, 1994). B2430.I744
CHANTER, Tina, Ethics of Eros: Irigaray’s Rewriting of the Philosophers (New York and London: Routledge, 1995).
B2430.I744
CHEAH, Pheng and Elizabeth GROSZ, ‘The Future of Sexual Difference: An Interview with Judith Butler and Drucilla Cornell’,
in Irigaray and the Political Future of Sexual Difference, Diacritics, 28:1 (1998), 19–42
CIMITILE, Maria C. and Elaine P. MILLER, eds, Returning to Irigaray: Feminist Philosophy, Politics and the Question of Unity
(Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007). B2430.I744
DEUTSCHER, Penelope, A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
2002). B2430.I744
FERMON, Nicole, ‘Women on the Global Market: Irigaray and the Democratic State’, in Irigaray and the Political Future of
Sexual Difference, Diacritics, 28:1 (1998), 120–37
INGRAM, Penelope, The Signifying Body: Toward An Ethics of Sexual and Racial Difference (Albany, NY: State University of
New York Press, 2008). B2430.I744
IRIGARAY, Luce, Ce sexe qui n’en est pas un (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1977). HC8700.I7
—, trans. by Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke, This Sex which is not One (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985).
HQ1206.I713
—, The Irigaray Reader, trans. and ed. by Margaret Whitford (Blackwell, 1991). B2430.I743
—, Parler n’est jamais neutre (Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1985). RC455.4.P78.I75
—, trans. by Gail Schwab, To Speak is Never Neutral (London: Continuum, 2002). RC455.4.P78
— ‘The Question of the Other’, trans. by Noah Guynn, in Another Look, Another Woman: Retranslations of French Feminism.
Yale French Studies, 87 (1995), 7–19
—, Speculum de l’autre femme (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1974). HC8700.I7
—, trans. by Gillian C. Gill, Speculum of the Other Woman (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985). HQ1154.I7413
—, Why different? A Culture of Two Subjects: Interviews with Luce Irigaray, ed. by Luce Irigaray and Sylvère Lotringer, trans.
by Camille Collins. Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents series (New York: Semiotext(e), 2000). HQ1154.I7543
IVES, Kelly, Luce Irigaray: Lips, Kissing and the Politics of Sexual Difference (Kidderminster: Crescent Moon, 2003).
B2430.I744
JACKSON, Emily, ‘Contradictions and Coherence in Feminist Responses to Law’, Journal of Law and Society, 20:4 (1993),
398–411
LUKE, Carmen, ‘Women in the Academy: The Politics of Speech and Silence’, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 15:2
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(1994), 211–30
MORNY, Joy, Divine Love: Luce Irigaray, Women, Gender and Religion (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006).
B2430.I744
MURPHY, Patricia, ‘The Gendering of History in “She”’, in The Nineteenth Century, Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900
39:4 (1999), 747–72
OUKADA, Larbi, ‘On on’, The French Review, 56:1 (1982), 93–105
PRIEST, Ann-Marie, ‘Woman as God, God as Woman: Mysticism, Negative Theology and Luce Irigaray’, The Journal of
Religion, 83:1 (2003), 1–23
SCHWAB, Gail, ‘Sexual Difference as Model: An Ethics for the Global Future’, in Irigaray and the Political Future of Sexual
Difference, Diacritics, 28:1 (1998), 76–92
STONE, Alison, Luce Irigaray and the Philosophy of Sexual Difference (Cambridge and New York: CUP, 2006). B2430.I744
VASSELEU, Cathryn, Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas and Merleau Ponty. Warwick Studies in European
Philosophy (London: Routledge, 1998). B2430.I744
WHITFORD, Margaret, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine (London: Routledge, 1991). B2430.I744
MICHÈLE LE DŒUFF
DEUTSCHER, Penelope, ‘French Feminist Philosophers on Law and Public Policy: Michèle Le Dœuff and Luce Irigaray’, Australian
Journal of French Studies, 34:1 (1997),
—, ‘That Knowledge is Not Sexed: Michèle Le Dœuff’s Le Sexe du savoir’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 40: 3 (2003),
342–49
FALLAIZ, Elizabeth, ‘The Pleasure of Dialogue in Le Sexe du savoir’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 40: 3 (2003), 309–15
LA CAZE, Marguerite., ‘Michèle Le Dœuff and the Work of Philosophy’, Australian Journal of French Studies, 40 (2003): 244–56
LE DŒUFF, Michèle, ‘Feminism Is Back in France—Or Is It?’, ed. by Penelope Deutcher, in Contemporary French Women
Philosophers, special issue of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 15:4 (2000), 243–55
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