Reconceptualize Freedom via Gender: Simone de Beauvoir’s Proposal

Abstract

The aim of this article is to propose the re-reading of The Second Sex in the light of her project to reconceptualize existentialist freedom. Including the proper women condition or ambiguity into this concept of freedom, De Beauvoir attempts to challenge the tradition of doing philosophy which detach human beings from their own lived experience. As a result, from her synthesis of women issue in The Second sex, she tries to reconsider the human temporality and the Other as the necessary element to construct human freedom