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Playwright, psychologist, novelist, ontologist, short story writer, philosophical anthropologist, social and political philosopher and critic, biographer, aesthetician, philosopher of history, ethicist—it would be hard to find any thinker of the 20th century who exhibited the incredible variety of talents of Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Anderson, Thomas. Sartre’s Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity. Chicago: Open Court, 1993.
Barnes, Hazel. An Existentialist Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Beauvoir, Simone de. Pyrrhus et Cinéas. Paris: Gallimard, 1944.
Catalano, Joseph. Good Faith and Other Essays. Lanham, MD: Rowen and Littlefield, 1996.
Detmer, David. Freedom as a Value: A Critique of the Ethical Theory of Jean-Paul Sartre. Chicago: Open Court, 1988.
Flynn, Thomas. Sartre and Marxist Existentialism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Santoni, Ronald. Bad Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre’s Early Philosophy. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. L’être et le néant: Essai d’ontologie phénoménologique. Paris: Gallimard, 1943.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology. Trans. Hazel Barnes. New York: Philosophical Library, 1956.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. L’existentialisme est un humanisme. Paris: Nagel, 1946.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism and Humanism. Trans. Philip Mairet. London: Methuen, 1973.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Critique de la raison dialectique (précédé de Questions de méthode). Vol. 1. Paris: Gallimard, 1960.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Critique of Dialectical Reason. Vol. 1. Trans. Alan Sheridan-Smith. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1976.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Search for a Method. Trans. Hazel Barnes. New York: Random House, 1958.
——. Lecture given in Rome, May 1964, at the Gramsci Institute. The manuscript, entitled, “Conférence a L’Institute Gramsci, Rome, 1964,” is available at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. I thank Mme. Mauricette Berne of the Bibliothèque Nationale for assisting me in obtaining access to it.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. L’Idiot de la famille: Gustave Flaubert de 1821 à 1857. 3 vols. Paris: Gallimard, 1971–72.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. The Family Idiot; Gustave Flaubert from 1821 to 1857. 5 vols. Trans. Carol Cosman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. “L’espoir, maintenant....” Entretien avec Benny Levy. Le Nouvel Observateur (March 10, 17, 24, 1980); “The Last Words of Jean-Paul Sartre.” Trans. Adrienne Foulke. Dissent (Fall 1980).
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Cahiers pour une morale. Paris: Gallimard, 1983.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Notebooks for an Ethics. Trans. David Pellauer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Spiegelberg, Herbert. “Sartre’s Last Word on Ethics in Phenomenological Perspective.” Research in Phenomenology 11 (1981): 90–107.
Stone, Robert and Elizabeth Bowman. “Dialectical Ethics: A First Look at Sartre’s unpublished 1964 Rome Lecture Notes.” Social Text (Winter-Spring 1986), 195-215.
References
Simone de Beauvoir, Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée (Paris: Gallimard, 1958); Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, trans. James Kirkup (New York: World Publishing Company, 1959), La force de l’âge (Paris: Gallimard, 1960); The Prime of Life, trans. Peter Green (New York: World Publishing Company, 1962), and La force des choses (Paris: Gallimard, 1963); Force of Circumstances, trans. Richard Howard (New York: G.P. Putnam, 1964).
Michel Contat and Michel Rybalka, Les écrits de Sartre: Chronologie, bibliographie commentée (Paris: Gallimard, 1970), 402; The Writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, vol. 1, A Bibliographical Life, trans. Richard McCleary (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1974), 452. This work also has a wealth of information about Sartre’s life.
See Jean-Paul Sartre, “Sartre par Sartre“ and “Les écrivaines en personne,” in his Situations, vol. 9 (Paris: Gallimard, 1972); “The Itinerary of a Thought” and “The Purposes of Writing,” in his Between Existentialism and Marxism, trans. John Mathews (London: NLB, 1974). See also “L’ami de peuple,” in his Situations, vol. 8 (Paris: Gallimard, 1972); “A Friend of the People,” also in Between Existentialism and Marxism.
Among them, the best biography of Sartre’s life, in my opinion, is Annie Cohen-Solal, Sartre, 1905–1980 (Paris: Gallimard, 1985); Sartre, A Life, trans. Anna Cancogni (New York: Pantheon, 1987).
EN and BN, Introduction, sections I-V. (See the list of abbreviations at the end of the chapter for frequently cited works.) On Sartre’s use of phenomenology see Hebert Spiegelberg with Karl Schuhmann, The Phenomenological Movement, 3rd rev. and enl. ed. (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1982), chapter 10.
To mention just a few, Henry Veatch, For an Ontology of Morals (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971); Mary Warnock, Existentialist Ethics (London: Macmillan, 1967); Herbert Spiegelberg, “Sartre’s Last Word on Ethics in Phenomenological Perspective,” Research in Phenomenology 11 (1981): 90-107; Peter Caws, Sartre (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979).
Ronald Santoni’s Bad Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre’s Early Philosophy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 89–96, shows how in Sartre’s early work authenticity is individualistic in character.
Jean-Paul Sartre, “Matérialisme et révolution,” in his Situations, vol. 3 (Paris: Gallimard, 1949), 210; “Materialism and Revolution,” in his Literary and Philosophical Essays, trans. Annette Michelson (New York: Collier Books, 1962), 246. These goals are also mentioned in Qu’est-ce que la littérature? (Paris: Gallimard, 1948), 195-96, 325-32; “What is Literature?” in his What is Literature? And Other Essays, trans. Bernard Frechtman (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), 140, 218-23, and in CM, 54, 169-78; NE, 49, 161-70, 418. Thus although the exact connection between the freedom of all and the classless society is not spelled out, by the late 1940s Sartre clearly identified his moral ideal with Marx’s.
RL, 67, 98, 145. Joseph Catalano, Good Faith and Other Essays (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), 59, criticizes me for using these terms, ignoring the fact that it is Sartre who does so. Catalano asks, “Who or what would impose it [need]” on us? Of course, the answer is that our ontological structure as conscious organisms imposes certain needs on us.
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Anderson, T.C. (2002). Jean-Paul Sartre: From an Existentialist to a Realistic Ethics. In: Phenomenological Approaches to Moral Philosophy. Contributions to Phenomenology, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9924-5_19
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