Beauvoir may have misread Sartre through Merleau-Ponty’s interpretive lens

Evidence

Kruks briefl y mentions this essay and argues that Beauvoir’s reading of Sartre was now “refracted” through “Merleau-Ponty’s lenses” (“Teaching Sartre about Freedom,” 88). Th is is a bit strange. While Beauvoir’s stated purpose was to show that Merleau-Ponty dealt with a straw-man Sartre, Kruks argues that Beauvoir now misread Sartre, in her defense of Sartre, due to her commitments to Merleau-Ponty. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 212

Categorization

• QUESTION: The author seems to doubt Kruks’ claim that Beauvoir’s reading was refracted through Merleau-Ponty — worth following up on the evidence for and against.
• XREF: Directly relevant to the influence/authorship debate and the question of how Beauvoir’s philosophical commitments shaped her reading of Sartre. — connects to: Linking Beauvoir to Merleau-Ponty became a scholarly way to erase Sartre — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 62; Beauvoir synthesized Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, exceeding both, to write the Second Sex — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 63; Ambiguity is Merleau-Ponty’s concept, not Sartre’s or Beauvoir’s — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 66 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir resented Merleau-Ponty for not seeing Sartre moving toward her views and his #complicates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 94
• Beauvoir saw Sartre and Merleau-Ponty diverging on the subject by 1945 #expands (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 501