1 The Beginnings of Beauvoir's Existential Phenomenology -- 2 Simone de Beauvoir's Existential Phenomenology and Philosophy of History in Le Deuxiรจme Sexe -- 3 Beauvoir and Plato: The Clinic and the Cave -- 4 A Saraband of Imagery: The Uses of Biological Science in Le Deuxiรจme Sexe -- 5 The Body as a Basis for Being: Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- 6 For the Time Being: Simone de Beauvoir's Representation of Temporality -- 7 The Lived Experience of Doubling: Simone de Beauvoir's Phenomenology of Old Age -- 8 Phenomenology and the Ethical Bases of Pluralism: Arendt and Beauvoir on Race in the United States -- 9 Beauvoir as Situated Subject: The Ambiguities of Life in World War II France -- 10 Between the Ethical and the Political: The Difference of Ambiguity -- Simone de Beauvoir and Existential Phenomenology: A Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors