Beauvoir viewed her work and Sartre’s as one combined intellectual enterprise

Evidence

Th e present editors feel that one hundred years aft er Beauvoir’s birth the time has come to present a focused and sustained volume that will address this very issue. Th ough we do not aim at reaching a fi nal and absolutely “true” judgment about what has become an almost insolvable question, we at least hope to be able— with the kind help of all the contributors included— to clarify this issue and the multifarious perspectives relevant here, and to point to what was really at stake: not merely a more comprehensive understanding of Beauvoir and Sartre but a more serious awareness of what we are, an understanding that both sexes are in great need of each other. Like Sartre and Beauvoir, neither sex can live without the other, and their common enterprises, intellectual and otherwise, are oft en reaching human greatness because they are the loving testimony that we humans, women and men, are bound to work together, to live together, and to fi ght our common enemies: sickness, starvation, ignorance, racial prejudices, privation, and natural disasters. We think that Simone de Beauvoir felt this deeply and passionately, as did Sartre. Th at may be why she really did not care about the question of infl uence: she was always looking at Sartre’s intellectual achievements and her own as one combined enterprise that vividly attest to human greatness and genuine humanism. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 50

Categorization

• QUESTION: The editors claim Beauvoir ‘really did not care’ about influence — a strong interpretive claim that the volume’s own contributors may contest; worth tracking who pushes back.
• XREF: Connects to the broader Beauvoir-Sartre authorship debate, e.g. Kate and Edward Fullbrook’s claims that Beauvoir authored key Sartrean concepts. — connects to: Sartre and Beauvoir’s major works follow parallel publication chronologies — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 39; Beauvoir and Sartre shared intellectual property through mutual biographical borrowing — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 517; Beauvoir studies contests her subordination to Sartre as a mere follower — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 44 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir studies contests her subordination to Sartre as a mere follower #corroborates (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 44
• Beauvoir and Sartre shared intellectual property through mutual biographical borrowing #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 517
• Beauvoir and Sartre related intellectually as equal partners, not rivals #expands (0.78) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 42
• Beauvoir’s interdependence ethic overlaps with Sartre’s own considered view #qualifies (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 173
• Beauvoir holds Others as essential, challenging Sartre’s ontological individualism #complicates (0.70) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 184