2022/03/27 by Johanna Oksala
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies #Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy #Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/ejop.12782
openalex publication_date 2022/03/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/25
Abstract The paper aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation on critical phenomenology with reflections on its method. The key argument is that critical phenomenology should be understood as a form of historico‐transcendental inquiry and therefore it cannot forgo the phenomenological reduction. Rather, this methodological step should be centered in critical phenomenology, and appropriated in problematized and rethought forms. The methodological assessment of critical phenomenology has implications also for how we read its canon. The paper shows that while Simone de Beauvoir did not adopt the phenomenological reduction in its full Husserlian meaning, her analyses of experience did not remain on the level of personal or experiential description either. The contention is that if we want to read her as a critical phenomenologist, we should focus on her seminal modification of the historico‐transcendental method of phenomenology.