Sartre never claimed intellectual superiority over Beauvoir, though she promoted his.

Evidence

As Kate and Edward Fullbrook have pointed out in their controversial study, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: Th e Remaking of a Twentieth- Century Legend (1993), commentators have traditionally considered Beauvoir’s work to be an application of Sartre’s philosophical ideas. Beauvoir herself was, of course, keen to promote this public image of the couple. In 1982 she claimed in conversation with Deirdre Bair that she accepted unquestioningly the system Sartre created in Being and Nothingness as her raison d’être. However, her persistent defense of Sartre’s intellectual superiority was not without its diffi culties. Interestingly, Sartre himself never claimed that Beauvoir was his intellectual inferior. For example, in an interview conducted with her in 1975, he claimed that he had never considered himself more intelligent than Beauvoir. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 236

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider Fullbrook thesis on authorship reversal and the Beauvoir-Sartre influence debate central to this book’s historiographical purpose. — connects to: Beauvoir and Sartre related intellectually as equal partners, not rivals — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 42; Beauvoir studies contests her subordination to Sartre as a mere follower — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 44

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir and Sartre related intellectually as equal partners, not rivals #corroborates (0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 42
• Beauvoir studies contests her subordination to Sartre as a mere follower #corroborates (0.82) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 44