Fichte e Hegel em disputa: luta por reconhecimento ou exortação à liberdade? Considerações sobre dois modelos de intersubjetividade a partir do projeto de emancipação feminina n'O Segundo Sexo de Simone de Beauvoir

Abstract

In this paper, I intend to provide a critical analysis of one of the conceptual schemes operating in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex: the intersubjective relationship between consciousness and the possibility, defended by the author, of women’s emancipation through a reciprocal recognition between men and women. To this end, I propose to confront this scheme with two distinct philosophical models for the interaction between consciousness: the one underlying the Hegelian argument of the “struggle” for recognition between master and slave (explicitly mobilized by Beauvoir) and the one elaborated by Fichte, particularly in his Iena’s years, in the name of an “exhortation” to freedom (not suggested by Beauvoir). My basic hypothesis is that the model presented by Fichte could perhaps contribute to the discussion on women's emancipation in Beauvoir, avoiding a possible impasse of her argument related to the tension between the Hegelian model of the struggle between master and slave and the specific solution for women's emancipation, as a reciprocal recognition between the sexes, with which the analyses of The Second Sex culminate.