Reading Sartre's Second Ethics

Morality, History, and Integral Humanity

Elizabeth A. Bowman, Robert V. Stone (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2023
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-4651-4 (ISBN)

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Reading Sartre’s Second Ethics: Morality, History, and Integral Humanity provides a comprehensive, reconstructive, and critical interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre’s mature dialectical ethics. Generally referred to as the “second ethics,” the key texts are two posthumously published lectures, one delivered at the Gramsci Institute in Rome in 1964, the other scheduled to be delivered at Cornell University in 1965 but cancelled by Sartre in protest of U.S. foreign policy. Though quite different in content, method, and intended audience, Sartre gave both lectures the shared title “Morality and History.” This is because, Elizabeth A. Bowman and Robert V. Stone argue, these texts comprise a single, systematic ethic in two parts. The first part (Rome) focuses primarily on the ends or goals of historical conduct; the second part (Cornell) focuses primarily on normativity and its ambiguous place in lived moral experience. The Cornell text argues that the ethical task of “making the human” cannot be properly understood apart from a regressive and phenomenological analysis; the Rome text argues that the progressive and dialectical goal of historical conduct is, precisely, “integral humanity.” Taken together, the two texts demonstrate that integral humanity is always possible because the means to it can always be invented.

Elizabeth A. Bowman is president and research associate at the Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Robert V. Stone is professor emeritus of philosophy at the C. W. Post Center of Long Island University. Matthew C. Ally is professor of philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York.

Introduction: Reading Sartre’s Later Ethical Writings Today

Abbreviations

Part I: The Second Ethics: A Heuristic and Critical Prospectus

Chapter 1: Unveiling Socialism’s “Ethical Structure”

Part II: The Phenomenological Moment: What Morality is Made of

Chapter 2: The Everyday Experience of Morality

Chapter 3: The Types of Norms and What they Share

Part III: The Regressive Moment: How Morality is Lived

Chapter 4: The Livability of Norms I: Casuistry and Moral Comfort

Chapter 5: The Livability of Norms II: Morality Is Impossible Today

Chapter 6: Invention I: The Moral Moment in Historical Action

Chapter 7: Invention II: The Vocation of Praxis for the Ethical Unconditional

Part IV: The Progressive Moment: The Paradox of Ethos and the Means Beyond It

Chapter 8: The Paradox of Ethos I: The Two Sides of Norms

Chapter 9: The Paradox of Ethos II: The Actuality and Historicity of Norms

Chapter 10: The Root of Ethics I: Colonist Morality as Alienated Humanity

Chapter 11: The Root of Ethics II: Colonized Morality as Incipient Humanity

Part V: Humanity is Always Possible

Chapter 12: "Socialist Morality" and the Conduct of Revolution

Conclusion: Inventing Humanity

Erscheinungsdatum	17.03.2023
Co-Autor	Matthew C. Ally
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	157 x 236 mm
Gewicht	735 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-7936-4651-1 / 1793646511
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-4651-4 / 9781793646514
Zustand	Neuware