The Ethics of Authenticity

by Charles Taylor (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991) has rightly become an influential study of this topic by a non-existentialist. Charles Guignon’s

On Being Authentic (London: Routledge, 2004) assesses the strengths and weaknesses of this concept in an accessible manner. Two careful studies of this topic in Sartre’s thought are Ronald E. Santoni’s

Bad Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre’s Early Philosophy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995) and Joseph S. Catalano’s

Good Faith and Other Essays: Perspectives on Sartre’s Ethics (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996).

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De Beauvoir’s autobiography, especially

Force of Circumstance , covering 1944-62 (New York: Putnam, 1965), and

All Said and Done , covering 1962-72 (New York: Putnam, 1974), provides a first-hand account of those years of the existentialist movement. William McBride,

Sartre’s Political Theory (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1991) offers a thorough analysis of Sartre’s political thought throughout his life. Thomas R. Flynn,

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