The Beauvoir-Sartre-Merleau-Ponty collaboration broke in 1955

Evidence

Th e intellectual exchange among the three carried on over the course of many years up until the break in 1955 marked by Merleau-Ponty’s publication of “Sartre and Ultra-Bolshevism” and Beauvoir’s response in “Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism.” — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 90

Categorization

• SHARE: A specific datable intellectual-history fact—the 1955 rupture and the two essays that marked it—that a Continental philosophy specialist would want.
• XREF: connects to: The Korean War and Soviet camp revelations reversed Merleau-Ponty and Sartre’s relative Communist sympathies — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 802; Beauvoir saw Sartre and Merleau-Ponty diverging on the subject by 1945 — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 501; Beauvoir and Sartre co-founded Les Temps modernes with Merleau-Ponty in 1945 — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 52 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir resented Merleau-Ponty for not seeing Sartre moving toward her views and his #expands (0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 94
• Beauvoir saw Sartre and Merleau-Ponty diverging on the subject by 1945 #corroborates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 501
• Beauvoir and Sartre co-founded Les Temps modernes with Merleau-Ponty in 1945 #expands (0.72) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 52