Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Ambiguity: A Contribution Towards Feminist Film-phenomenology

Abstract

This review concerns Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology, a work that applies Beauvoir’s existential philosophy of ambiguity to a selection of films by independent women filmmakers, demonstrating how cinema and philosophy may rethink life from new ethical-political perspectives through embodied epistemology and empathy.