Beauvoir and Sartre co-founded Les Temps modernes with Merleau-Ponty in 1945

Evidence

2. Th e times of World War II and the immediate postwar period: Sartre’s Being and Nothingness appeared in 1943, soon followed by Beauvoir’s essay Pyrrhus et Cinéas. At the end of the war, both launch, with Merleau- Ponty, Les Temps modernes. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 52

Categorization

• XREF: The temporal proximity of Being and Nothingness (1943) and Pyrrhus et Cinéas is the crux of the influence debate — Fullbrook argues Beauvoir’s essay pre-dates or parallels Sartre’s ontology. — connects to: The Beauvoir-Sartre-Merleau-Ponty collaboration broke in 1955 — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 90; Beauvoir saw Sartre and Merleau-Ponty diverging on the subject by 1945 — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 501; The Sartre-Merleau-Ponty friendship effectively ended over a cut editorial note — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 829

Broader Connections

• The Sartre-Merleau-Ponty friendship effectively ended over a cut editorial note #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 829