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Beauvoir wrote Pyrrhus and Cinéas to reconcile Sartrean freedom with her own situation-based views

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Beauvoir wrote Pyrrhus and Cinéas to reconcile Sartrean freedom with her own situation-based views

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Pyrrhus and CinĂ©as, written in 1943 at the suggestion of a publisher seeking a new contribution in existentialism, was Beauvoir’s fi rst published philosophical essay. Although Beauvoir later said that she worked consciously within a Sartrean framework in writing this and other essays, she also remarked that Pyrrhus and CinĂ©as provided an opportunity to reconcile Sartrean views on freedom with her own views on the signifi cance of situation in undermining or encouraging the realization of freedom. Largely a treatise on the justifi cation of human existence, Pyrrhus and CinĂ©as provided Beauvoir an opportunity to explore the themes of political violence and the interdependence of human freedoms, themes she addressed as well in her novel Th e Blood of Others. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 576

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  • XREF: The ‘reconcile Sartrean freedom with situation’ framing echoes the larger question of whether The Second Sex’s situated ethics radicalizes or departs from Sartre. — connects to: Beauvoir’s situated account of freedom moved Sartre beyond his earlier absolutism — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of
, 46; Beauvoir’s ethical freedom departs from Sartre’s ontological freedom to make morality possible — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of
, 610; Sartrean freedom is primal and unmediated unlike Beauvoir’s dialectical consciousness — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of
, 250

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