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1、ContinentalPhilosophyReview34:129–149,2001.©2001KluwerAcademicPublishers.PrintedintheNetherlands.BEING-WITHASBEING-AGAINST129Being-withasbeing-against:HeideggermeetsHegelinTheSecondSexNANCYBAUERDepartmentofPhilosophy,TuftsUniversity,Medford,MA02155-7059,USAE-mail:nancy.bauer@tufts.eduAb
2、stract.InthispaperIattempttofurtherthecase,madeinrecentyearsbyEvaGothlin,thatreadersinterestedinaphilosophicalreturntoSimonedeBeauvoir’sTheSecondSexhavegoodreasontoheedBeauvoir’sappropriationofcentralconceptsfromHeidegger’sBeingandTime.Ispeculateaboutwhyreadershavebeenhesitanttoacknowle
3、dgeHeidegger’sinfluenceonBeauvoirandshowthatherinfrequentthough,Iargue,importantuseoftheHeideggarianneologismMitseininTheSecondSexmakesinadequatesenseapartfromanappreciationofthefundamentalroleplayedbyherappropriationofHegel’s“master-slavedialectic”inthatbook.IsuggestawaytosquareBeauvoi
4、r’sHegelianclaimthathumanbe-ingsarefundamentallyatoddswithoneanotherwithherHeideggerianviewthatwearealsoallontologically“with”oneanother.Finally,IsketchoutawayofinterpretingBeauvoir’semploymentofcertainconceptsfromHegelandHeideggerintheserviceofunderstanding,hencebeginningtoovercome,wom
5、en’soppression.Introduction1Intheverylastsentenceofthe“Introduction”toTheSecondSex,SimonedeBeauvoirpromisesthatthebookwillgiveherreadersthemeans“tocompre-hendthedifficultieswithwhich(women)collideinthemomentinwhich,try-ingtomaketheirescapefromthespherehithertoassignedthem,theyaspiretopa
6、rticipateinthehumanMitsein.”2Butwhatisthis“humanMitsein”inwhichwomen,accordingtoBeauvoir,aspiretoparticipate?AndwhydoesBeauvoirhelpsherselfatthisimportantjunctureinherbooktothewordMitsein,aHeideggerianneologismordinarilytranslatedinEnglishas“being-with”?Despiteasurgeofphilosophicalinter
7、estinTheSecondSexoverthelastdecadeorso,asurgeconsistingoverwhelminglyofinvestigationsintothebook’sphilosophicalrootsinthethoughtoffiguressuchasHusserl,Merleau-Ponty,andHegel,commentatorshavehadscarcelyanythingtosayaboutthesignificanceofBeauvoir’scopioususeofHeideggerianterminol