Beauvoir’s Henri Perron exists as a freedom suffused by political situation.

Evidence

Henri Perron is a successful young novelist, Resistance activist, and editor of a Left ist daily newspaper, L’Espoir [Hope], that he co-founded during the Resistance. He struggles throughout the novel to make sense of the shift ing political currents and events of the postwar period and to satisfy his diverse and confl icting desires. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 485

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the novel Les Mandarins as Beauvoir’s vehicle for exploring situated political judgment.
• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir’s phenomenology held that perception itself diverges across political positions — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 784; Postwar Beauvoir reconceived freedom as porous and constrained by situation. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 499; Situated forces, not external indifference, shape Henri’s political decisions. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 486 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Situated forces, not external indifference, shape Henri’s political decisions. #exemplifies (0.92) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 486
• Postwar Beauvoir reconceived freedom as porous and constrained by situation. #corroborates (0.88) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 499
• Freedom and facticity are mutually condition each other’s existence. #qualifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1176
• Beauvoir distinguishes inborn ontological freedom from willed freedom that facticity can eviscerate #expands (0.78) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 643
• Beauvoir’s phenomenology held that perception itself diverges across political positions #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 784