Sartre’s trajectory is continuous evolution, not rupture, shaped by Beauvoir.

Evidence

I believe Sartre’s philosophical development from Being and Nothingness to Critique of Dialectical Reason to be a process of continuous evolution and progressive enrichment (rather than a rupture). Marxism is a major part of Sartre’s later philosophy, insofar as it poses a challenge that Sartre believes only existentialism to be capable of satisfying. In this section, I will try to explain how Beauvoir’s infl uence was decisive in leading Sartre to formulate the theses fi rst expressed in Critique of Dialectical Reason. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 425

Categorization

• XREF: The continuity-versus-rupture frame is the central historiographical claim structuring this whole study of Beauvoir’s influence on Sartre.