{"id":13,"date":"2019-08-30T12:40:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2020-02-22T11:01:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:01:48","slug":"3-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/3-13\/","title":{"rendered":"3\/13 | Simone de Beauvoir, <em>The Second Sex<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PkyCjjI1l0c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Professors\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/judith-revel\/\">Judith Revel<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/cgt.columbia.edu\/about\/people\/committee-faculty\/bernard-e-harcourt\/\">Bernard E. Harcourt<\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">read and discuss<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-introduction-to-critique-3-13\/\"><em>The Second Sex <\/em><\/a>by Simone de Beauvoir<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ehess.fr\/fr\">EHESS<\/a>,\u00a0Campus Condorcet, Paris<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">October 16, 2019<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">~~~<\/h2>\n<p>We turn today \u2013 or as I have suggested in the earlier seminars, we \u201creturn\u201d today \u2013 to a brilliant, transformative critical text from 1949: Simone de Beauvoir&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Second Sex.\u00a0<\/em>And not just to a brilliant critical text, but as well, to two remarkable and equally insightful critical texts that engage Beauvoir\u2019s book in precisely the manner that I was hoping to deploy, in the critical method.<\/p>\n<p>We have been discussing, in the previous seminars, this idea of a critical method of reading, and I think that Judith Revel\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/judith-revel-on-the-second-sex-by-simone-de-beauvoir\/\">intervention<\/a> is a perfect illustration of the critical method <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3393827\">I have tried to identify<\/a>: To return to a critical text, not to historicize it, or simply to place it in its historical context, but to identify critical moves, arguments, or articulations that we can then interrogate in the context of our present political struggles.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that is what Judith Revel does so brilliantly in her intervention. It is also what I see reflected in Judith Butler\u2019s article from 1986, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/critique-3-13-readings\/\">Gender in Simone de Beauvoir\u2019s <em>Second Sex<\/em><\/a>.\u201d I will bring that second text into conversation during my remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s go straight into the discussion. Welcome to Critique 3\/13!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professors\u00a0Judith Revel\u00a0and Bernard E. Harcourt read and discuss The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir at the EHESS,\u00a0Campus Condorcet, Paris October 16, 2019 ~~~ We turn today \u2013 or as I have suggested in the earlier seminars, we \u201creturn\u201d today&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/3-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/critique1313\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}