MELISSA TAMI OTSUKA

The present thesis, in general, aims to analyze the links of Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy with the reading of the Hegelian dialectic carried out by Alexandre Kojève, a fundamental point that removes it from the shadow of Sartrean philosophy. Based mainly on the work published in 1949, The Second Sex, we start from the hypothesis that Simone de Beauvoir makes a critical appropriation of the dialectic of the master and slave, present in the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807). Through the analysis of Beauvoir's work, it is a matter of demonstrating that the philosopher does not transpose purely the elements of the dialectic, because when contesting the generic picture of human relations that is obtained from the Hegelian dialectic, which persists in the philosophy of the young Sartre, the philosopher it transforms and creates an original interpretation that embraces and investigates the woman's experience as the Other.