Sartre and Beauvoir rejected Camus’s cosmic absurdity, insisting life has real meaning.

Evidence

What I didn’t realise was that important philosophical differences divided the work of Camus and Sartre. Much as they liked Camus personally, neither Sartre nor Beauvoir accepted his vision of absurdity. For them, life is not absurd, even when viewed on a cosmic scale, and nothing can be gained by saying it is. Life for them is full of real meaning, although that meaning emerges differently for each of us. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 489

Categorization

• DEFINE: A key orientation point: contrary to popular conflation, Sartrean existentialism never embraced ‘meaninglessness’ — meaning instead is individually created.
• XREF: Distinguishes Sartre from Camus the way the reader’s aim of synthesizing the movement demands; connects to Sartre’s bad faith vs. authenticity concepts. — connects to: Beauvoir and Sartre share a tradition separating being from rationality — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 443

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir and Sartre share a tradition separating being from rationality #expands (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 443