Beauvoir’s grasp of Sartre’s philosophy improved across the 1940s and 50s

Evidence

Kruks does not consider the possibility that Beauvoir came to more clearly understand Sartre’s view in the 1950s than she had in the early 40s. Th is possibility is developed below. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 213

Categorization

• QUESTION: The main historiographical question of this book: did Beauvoir understand Sartre better later, and does that reshape the authorship debate?