1. Some who do so are: Brooke Moore & Kenneth Bruder,Philosophy, The Power of Ideas, 3rd edition (Toronto: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1996), p.553; Charles Guigon & Derek Pereboom,Existentialism: Basic Writings(Indianapolis: Hacket Pub. Co, 1995), the final chapter; Nina Rosenstand,The Moral of the Story(Toronto: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1994), pp.235–239, 338–241; David Cooper,Existentialism, second edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), Ch. 10.
2. See for example: Linda Bell,Sartre's Ethics of Authenticity(Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1989), Stuart Charmé,Vulgarity and Authenticity(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991), and Ronald Santoni,Bad Faith, Good Faith, and Authenticity in Sartre's Early Philosophy(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995).
3. Thus, William McBride, the editor ofExistentialist Ethics(New York: Garland Pub. Inc, 1997), states in his introduction that an “emphasis” on authenticity, and other notions, remains “throughout the various phases of his [Sartre's] career” (p.xi). Thomas Flynn,Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, Vol. 1 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997) considers the notion central (a “gyroscope”, p. 264) to Sartre's entire thought, including his last work on Flaubert, although Flynn does admit that the later Sartre does not himself actually use the word (pp.94–95). In a very recent article on Sartre's ethics, Linda Bell presents only his early ethics of authenticity. See her “Existential ethics” inThe Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, general editor Simon Glendinning (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 1999).
4. All the authors mentioned in the previous endnote recognize that Sartre's early ethics is only the first of many. However, none of them ask why the term authenticity is not found in the later ethics.
5. Sartre refers to and critiques his various attempts to come up with an ethics in the following places: “Jean-Paul Sartre et M. Sicard: Entretien”,Obliques18–19 (1979), pp.14–15;Sartre by Himself, trans. Richard Seaver (New York: Urizen Books, 1978), pp.77–81; “Self-Portrait at Seventy” an interview with Michel Contat inLife/Situations: Essays Written and Spoken, trans. Paul Auster and Lydia Davis (New York: Pantheon, 1977), pp.60, 74–75; “An Interview with Jean-Paul Sartre” by Leo Frez, trans. George Berger, inJean-Paul Sartre, Contemporary Approaches to His Philosophy, ed.Hugh Silverman and Frederick Ellison (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1980), pp.233–34; “Conversations with Jean-Paul Sartre”, Interview with Simone de Beauvoir, trans. Patrick O'Brian inAdieux: A Farewell to Sartre(New York: Pantheon, 1984), p.182. In theObliquesinterview listed above he says his early ethics was a “failed attempt”.