Beauvoir’s embodiment views diverged from Sartre’s from the start

Evidence

For my part, I think that Beauvoir never agreed with the views on the body presented by Sartre. I agree rather with Hengehold, who sees a strong connection with Merleau-Ponty rather than Sartre. I also think that Beauvoir presented these views on embodiment in She Came to Stay, albeit not fully conceptualized and articulated but only in its earliest forms. Notes in her early diaries also confi rm this. In her student diary, she notes about Merleau-Ponty: “Th ose problems that he [Merleau-Ponty] lives in his mind, I live them with my arms and my legs. Has he ever known months when all the days were only tears?” (Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926–27, 293). As early as 1927, then, Beauvoir displays a distaste for rationalism or any view that would dissociate consciousness from its body. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 119

Categorization

• XREF: Core thesis evidence for the influence-direction question: Beauvoir’s anti-dualism precedes and shapes her engagement with both Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. — connects to: Beauvoir’s pre-Sartre diaries already contained core existentialist concepts — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 34; Beauvoir reframed Sartre’s alienating male Look as a reciprocal female gaze — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 277; Beauvoir’s interdependence ethic overlaps with Sartre’s own considered view — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 173 (+3 more)
• SHARE: The 1927 diary quote is a compact, vivid datum for anyone working on Beauvoir or Merleau-Ponty.

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir grounds selfhood in the Other’s gaze where Sartre denies such dependency #contradicts (0.90) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 267
• Beauvoir holds Others as essential, challenging Sartre’s ontological individualism #contradicts (0.88) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 184
• Beauvoir reframed Sartre’s alienating male Look as a reciprocal female gaze #corroborates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 277
• Beauvoir’s interdependence ethic overlaps with Sartre’s own considered view #contradicts (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 173
• Beauvoir’s ontological freedom position may not depart significantly from Sartre’s #contradicts (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 212