ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a new explication of the main parameters of Simone de Beauvoir’s political philosophy. The chapter argues that Beauvoir develops her central political-philosophical concepts—the concepts of encroachment, oppression, and violence—in parallel with her phenomenological ontology and existential ethics. More specifically, it demonstrates that Beauvoir’s understanding of the structures of human embodiment and human action lays the ground for her critique of oppression and her original approach to the philosophical problems of violence. The guiding idea of all her analyses is in her conception of human existence as world driven and futural and thus necessarily intersubjective and fundamentally embodied.
