The Fullbrooks credit Beauvoir with the philosophy of Being and Nothingness

Evidence

In 1993 Kate and Edward Fullbrook tackled the question of infl uence in Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: Th e Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend. Th is “revisionist biography” revisits many aspects of Beauvoir’s and Sartre’s lives, including that of philosophical infl uence. In it and other articles (including Edward Fullbrook’s essay in this volume), they vigorously claim that we have to thank Beauvoir for the philosophy presented in Being and Nothingness. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 47

Categorization

• XREF: The Fullbrooks’ maximal influence-reversal thesis is the historiographical pole the reader is mapping; it echoes the stronger claims of the later scholarly literature on Beauvoir’s obscured authorship. — connects to: Being and Nothingness culminates Sartre’s early philosophy rather than beginning with Beauvoir’s manuscript — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 244; Heidegger had actually read deep into Sartre’s Being and Nothingness — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 642

Broader Connections

• Being and Nothingness culminates Sartre’s early philosophy rather than beginning with Beauvoir’s manuscript #contradicts (0.90) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 244
• Heidegger had actually read deep into Sartre’s Being and Nothingness #complicates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 642