Beauvoir saw Sartre and Merleau-Ponty diverging on the subject by 1945

Evidence

While Sartre, in Being and Nothingness, emphasizes above all the opposition of foritself and initself … Merleau-Ponty on the contrary applies himself to describing the concrete character of a subject who is never, according to him, a pure for-itself” (“La phénoménologie de la perception,” 366). — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 501

Categorization

• XREF: Shows Beauvoir as an early diagnostic reader placing her position between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty — evidence for her independent philosophical agency in the 1940s. — 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 may have misread Sartre through Merleau-Ponty’s interpretive lens — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 212 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir resented Merleau-Ponty for not seeing Sartre moving toward her views and his #expands (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 94
• Beauvoir and Sartre co-founded Les Temps modernes with Merleau-Ponty in 1945 #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 52