A review by marxistsupernanny
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

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5.0

Such a wonderful text. The Ethics of Ambiguity is a book I keep coming back to. Not only is the text filled with amazing quotes against nihilism and for an thoughtful active existence, De Beauvoir also situates her ethics in a Marxist-feminist ethics. An ambiguous ethics skirts any ‘ready made’ moral propositions, and instead opts for a Nietzschean genealogy. That is to say, De Beauvoir’s is an ethics of relations between bodies, and how to lead an affirmative existence.