Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors' Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Literary Grounding of Metaphysics: Beauvoir and Plato on Philosophical Fiction -- Chapter 2: Existence, Freedom, and the Festival: Rousseau and Beauvoir -- Chapter 3: A Different Kind of Universality: Beauvoir and Kant on Universal Ethics -- Chapter 4: Simone de Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade: Contesting the Logic of Sovereignty and the Politics of Terror and Rape -- Chapter 5: Beauvoir and Marx -- Chapter 6: Saving Time: Temporality, Recurrence, and Transcendence in Beauvoir's Nietzschean Cycles -- Chapter 7: Beauvoir and Husserl: An Unorthodox Approach to The Second Sex -- Chapter 8: Beauvoir and Bergson: A Question of Influence -- Chapter 9: Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty: Philosophers of Ambiguity -- Chapter 10: From Beauvoir to Irigaray: Making Meaning out of Maternity -- Chapter 11: Ambiguity and Precarious Life: Tracing Beauvoir's Legacy in the Work of Judith Butler -- Chapter 12: True Philosophers: Beauvoir and bell -- Contributors -- Index.