Beauvoir influenced Sartre broadly but failed on the sexed nature of embodiment

Evidence

While it has become evident that Beauvoir was successful in infl uencing Sartre regarding some specifi c questions and philosophical problems, as some other contributors in this volume have shown, it appears that she was not able to infl uence him in all matters. Th e one fundamental concept where she failed to infl uence him was that of embodiment, specifi cally the sexed nature of embodiment. … Beauvoir was always very careful in camoufl aging the infl uence she might have had on Sartre’s works, but an analysis of that essay shows a breach in that strategy. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 88

Categorization

• XREF: Directly engages the central Beauvoir-Sartre influence debate central to this book’s stated reading purpose; also touches the Merleau-Ponty triangle of Continental phenomenology. — connects to: Sartre’s philosophy is sexist despite its anti-essentialist framework — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 88; Beauvoir’s account of the body is phenomenological, not biological or constructivist. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 399
• SHARE: For anyone working on Beauvoir-Sartre authorship or feminist phenomenology — the claim that embodiment was the specific point of failed influence is a sharp, citation-ready finding.