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In Reading Sartre's Second Ethics, Elizabeth A. Bowman and Robert V. Stone provide a comprehensive, reconstructive, and critical interpretation of Jean-Paul Sartre's mature dialectical ethics. The key Sartrean 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 different in content, method, and intended audience, Sartre gave both lectures the shared title "Morality and History." As Bowman and Stone argue, these texts comprise a single, systematic ethic in two parts. The Cornell lecture focuses primarily on a regressive and phenomenological analysis of normativity and its ambiguous place in lived moral experience; the Rome lecture focuses primarily on a progressive and dialectical synthesis of the ends or goals of historical conduct. Taken together, the two texts demonstrate that "integral humanity" is always possible because the means to it can always be freely 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 and author of Ecology and Existence: Bringing Sartre to the Water's Edge.
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