Il cigno nero : Kant, Beauvoir e l'amicizia come rapporto di libertà, uguaglianza e reciprocità

Since the 1980s, a growing number of feminist scholars have undertaken a critical reassessment of Kantian philosophy, challenging its gender hierarchies and abstract model of reason, while also reclaiming key concepts suchas autonomy and freedom. This essay contributes to this ongoing debate by examiningthe relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Kant, an intellectual connection thathas received relatively little attention despite the significant influence of Kantian philosophy on Beauvoir's early intellectual education. The author argues that Kant'smoral philosophy is an importance reference in Beauvoir's conception of friendship -developed most notably in The Second Sex, but also across her literary works and epistolary writings. By tracing both continuities and divergences between the two thinkers,the essay shows how Beauvoir critically reinterprets Kantian ideas of freedom, equality, and reciprocity through the lens of an embodied and situated subjectivity, ultimately presenting friendship as a

paradigm of emancipatory moral relations. [Publisher's text]