Total political conviction forced Sartre to sacrifice his closest personal friendships.

Evidence

This dig prompted Sartre to write his own response after all. It turned into an ad hominem tirade that was overemotional even by his own recent standards. That’s it, said Sartre; their friendship was over. Of course he would miss Camus, especially the old Camus that he remembered from wartime Resistance days. But now that his friend had become a counter-revolutionary, no reconciliation was possible. Again, nothing could trump politics. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 812

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Camus’s own novel The Rebel theme and parallels the historical casuistry in Milgrom’s chapter on institutions for trade—where commitment mechanisms override personal ties. — connects to: Sartre’s politics applied Heideggerian resoluteness over personal loyalty and even justice. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 814; Political scandal prevented personal contact between Sartre and Heidegger — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 643; Sartre and Beauvoir came to see political disagreement as disqualifying friendship — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 782

Broader Connections

• Sartre and Beauvoir came to see political disagreement as disqualifying friendship #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 782
• Political scandal prevented personal contact between Sartre and Heidegger #exemplifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 643