Defending Solidarity: A Re-reading of Being and Nothingness in the Light of Sartre's 1964 Rome Lecture

by Milly Thiringer

Common interpretations of Sartre's early works such as "Existentialism is a Humanism" and parts of Being and Nothingness suggest that he was a die-hard moral relativist. Through a careful translation and analysis of Sartre's unpublished 1964 Rome Lecture Notes assisted by the explanatory social model laid out in Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Thiringer proposes a re-reading of Sartre's earlier works that defines freedom as the necessary condition for any morality at all. Thus Sartre's "ethics," in her view, is really an ontologically grounded metaethics.

101 pages, Paperback

Published December 22, 2018

Reviews

[Mimi · Rating 3 out of 5]

short but good summary of Being and Nothingness, lots of good points. 3.3