“At the end of World War II, as Europe lay in ruins, so too did its ‘intellectual landscape,’ notes the Living Philosophy video above. In the midst of this ‘intellectual crater’ a number of great thinkers debated ‘the blueprint for the future.’ Feminist philosopher and novelist Simone de Beauvoir put it bluntly: ‘We were to provide the postwar era with its ideology.’ Two names — De Beauvoir’s partner Jean-Paul Sartre and his friend Albert Camus — came to define that ideology in the philosophy broadly known as Existentialism. … Their fame would continue into the postwar years, despite Camus’ retreat from philosophical writing after the publication of The Rebel. While we’ve previously brought you stories of their friendship, and its bitter end, the video above digs deeper into the Sartre-Camus rivalry, with critical historical context for their thinking. Their initial falling out took place over The Rebel…