Sartre’s politics applied Heideggerian resoluteness over personal loyalty and even justice.

Evidence

Just like Heidegger in his Being and Time period, Sartre thought the important thing was to be resolute at all costs: to grasp what must be done, and do it. In the Algerian War, Camus would choose his mother over justice, but Sartre decided that it was not right to choose his friend if his friend was betraying the working class. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 814

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ties Sartre’s political conversion to Heidegger’s concept of Entschlossenheit/resoluteness from Being and Time—a useful orientation link for the reader.
• XREF: Directly connects Sartre’s stance to Heidegger’s Being and Time, which earlier chapters covered; and ‘mother over justice’ looks ahead to Camus’s own philosophy of limits. — connects to: Sartre’s political conversion was a Kehre like Heidegger’s but toward engagement. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 807; Sartre’s late thought shifted from individual freedom toward political commitment — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 853; Sartre’s personal behaviour and political positions were monstrous even by his admirers’ account — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1013 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s political conversion was a Kehre like Heidegger’s but toward engagement. #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 807
• Sartre’s late thought shifted from individual freedom toward political commitment #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 853
• Total political conviction forced Sartre to sacrifice his closest personal friendships. #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 812
• Sartre’s personal behaviour and political positions were monstrous even by his admirers’ account #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1013
• Sartre grounds all value in an unjustified, self-legitimizing freedom #expands (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 185