Beauvoir resented Merleau-Ponty for not seeing Sartre moving toward her views and his

Evidence

Possibly the fact that he fails to see how she has fi nally been successful in infl uencing Sartre, at least with regard to freedom and the acknowledgment of facticity and situatedness. If she is closer philosophically to Merleau-Ponty, as has been convincingly argued by some scholars, and if Merleau-Ponty fails to see how Sartre is moving closer to her own views and hence to his own, it has to be a bitter disappointment for her, even if she is constantly and carefully deluding herself about her own role in Sartre’s philosophical development. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 94

Categorization

• DEFINE: Positions Beauvoir’s philosophy as closer to Merleau-Ponty than to early Sartre — a key structural claim in the Beauvoir-Sartre influence literature.
• XREF: connects to: The Korean War and Soviet camp revelations reversed Merleau-Ponty and Sartre’s relative Communist sympathies — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 802; The Beauvoir-Sartre-Merleau-Ponty collaboration broke in 1955 — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 90; Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty’s intellectual friendship decayed from public amicability into rivalry — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 93 (+2 more)