Julian Bourg, a candidate for the Ph.D in History and the holder this year of the Jean and Irving Stone Fellowship, is writing a dissertation entitled Ethics in France, 1965-1984. The dissertation examines the widespread fascination with ethical questions among many French intellectuals, activists, and artists in the period from the mid-sixties to the mideighties. Motivated by a sense that pervasive worries about shared moral and political vocabulary need to be addressed in historically comprehensive and integrative terms, Bourg intends a study of the remarkable variety of ethical cultures that developed in France in the period and hence a “partial revision” of the a tendency among American humanities scholars to reduce French culture in the period to one group of theorists.