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Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus

In 1952 Les Temps modernes published the attack on Albert Camus’s L’Homme révolté and Sartre’s own reply that ended the friendship as a public fact, a cohesion cost in the French intellectual left. In the causal graph this event weakens Social Cohesion, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — a worsening welfare path.

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In 1952 Les Temps modernes published the attack on Albert Camus’s L’Homme révolté and Sartre’s own reply that ended the friendship as a public fact, a cohesion cost in the French intellectual left. Camus had refused historical murder as a method. Sartre answered as history’s prosecutor. A review can split a public more than a parliament.

Context

The revolt-versus-revolution quarrel was already philosophical. Jeanson’s piece and Sartre’s letter shared the issue. Sharing does not erase Sartre’s closing of the door. Aron had gone another way earlier.

Shared responsibility is part of Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus. Naming Jean-Paul Sartre does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1952-08-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Why it matters

Cohesion path of modest-to-mid weight. High confidence on the 1952 public rupture.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He commissioned and signed the public break over L’Homme révolté. Francis Jeanson wrote the review; Sartre’s reply closed the friendship as a public war.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactTemps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus
    2. weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
    3. strengthensIndicators (2)Having a say in government
    Worsening path

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 August 1952 · verified

    • Having a say in government

      via Social Cohesion

      Worse

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score

      via Social Cohesion

      Worse

      Weakens · Relationship strength 0.16 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.

      Normal is zero · any amount = worse

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Jean-Paul SartreEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Éditions Gallimard — portalÉditions Gallimard · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gallimard at https://www.gallimard.fr/ (opens in a new tab) is the official publisher of both men’s books and of the review’s home. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jean-Paul-Sartre (opens in a new tab) independently records the Camus break in the early 1950s file.

Established: TM and Sartre publicly broke with Camus in 1952. Not established: that the break uniquely caused later left violence. Contribution is recorded as He commissioned and signed the public break over L’Homme révolté. Francis Jeanson wrote the review; Sartre’s reply closed the friendship as a public war. The dated heading stays Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus on 1952-08-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Camus rupture is not Saint Genet as a 1952 twin. Mixed effects of Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus are separate paths.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJean-Paul Sartre
  2. contributed toFactTemps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus
  3. weakensDriverSocial Cohesion
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Temps modernes publishes Sartre’s rupture with Albert Camus. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-camus-1952

https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-camus-1952

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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