Simone de Beauvoir and the Value of Immanence
Abstract
Simone de Beauvoir systematically undervalues what she calls "immanence," which consists of the physical, the habitual, the repetitious. Not only does she believe that women have been relegated to the realm of immanence, she believes that immanence itself has little if any value. She sees what she called "transcendence" as having great value and, indeed, what makes a human life different and belter from any other sort of life. I argue that her view, while embodying a tendency present throughout the tradition in which she works, severely distorts what is desirable for a human life and fails to properly value immanence.Metrics
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