Vulgarity and Authenticity:
Dimensions of Otherness in the World of Jean-Paul Sartre
(University of Massachusetts Press, 1991)

Stuart Z. Charmé 
Department of Philosophy and Religion 
Rutgers University

Contents

Part 1: The Struggle between the Civil and the Vulgar

1. 1. Vulgarity and the Rise of Otherness                                                                                            17
   2. Civility and Its Defenses: Shame, Bad Faith and Religion                                                          42
   3. The Ambivalence of Being Civilized                                                                                            77

      Part 2: Embodiments of Otherness and the Rejection of Civility

   4. Strangers on the Train: Jewish Marginality and the Rejection of Civility                                    105
   5. Women Real and Imagined: The Female Other                                                                         145
   6. Passivity and Subversion: The Homosexual Other                                                                    171
   7. The Dark Core of White Civilization: The Black Other                                                               191
   8. The Triumph of the Vulgar: Prophetic Religion and the New Community of Brotherhood         215

Bibliography 
Index