Beauvoir’s phenomenology held that perception itself diverges across political positions

Evidence

To this, she responded with phenomenology. ‘As a philosopher, you must realise that each of us when he looks at a morceau de sucre [sugar lump] sees an entirely different object. Our morceaux de sucre are now so different that there’s no point in our meeting any longer.’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 784

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the phenomenological claim that perception is intentional, shaped by one’s situation, not neutral registration of an identical object.
• XREF: Connects to the idea that lived experience differs irreducibly between people, echoing Kant’s distinction between phenomenon and noumenon. — connects to: Beauvoir shifted bad faith from individual psychoanalysis to collective politics — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 64; Phenomenology of subjectivity becomes political resistance under tyranny — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 929; Beauvoir’s Henri Perron exists as a freedom suffused by political situation. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 485

Broader Connections

• Phenomenology of subjectivity becomes political resistance under tyranny #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 929
• Beauvoir shifted bad faith from individual psychoanalysis to collective politics #expands (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 64