Existential
Beauvoir’s ambiguity.
The Eighteen Convergent Patterns
16. Ambivalence as a stance — both/and rather than either/or
Several features of the corpus show him refusing forced-choice frames. He sustains positions that conventional decision-frames would treat as requiring resolution, and treats the sustaining as a position rather than as a postponement.
The relational particulars through which this pattern first became visible remain private. This page stays with the form of the pattern and the interpretations it opens.
Read through the lenses
Ontological
Process-ontology over substance-ontology.
Hermeneutic
Ongoing-interpretation rather than final-reading.
Critical-theory / power-analytic
Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism.