Sartre and Beauvoir stayed politically active into old age after their peers retired

Evidence

By 1968, most of the torn-shirted, kohl-eyed night-owls of the late 1940s had settled down to quiet homes and jobs, but not Sartre or Beauvoir. They marched in the front line, joined the Paris barricades, and addressed factory workers and students on picket lines, even though they sometimes found themselves perplexed by the new generation’s way of doing things. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 74

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sartre’s late thought shifted from individual freedom toward political commitment — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 853; Sartre’s funeral drew a cross-generational crowd linking philosophy to political causes — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 81

Broader Connections

• Sartre’s funeral drew a cross-generational crowd linking philosophy to political causes #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 81
• Sartre’s late thought shifted from individual freedom toward political commitment #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 853