Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 1

Theory of Practical Ensembles

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Jean Paul Sartre

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At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished with a major original introduction by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the basic categories for the renovated theory of history that he believed was necessary for post-war Marxism. Sartre's formal aim was to establish the dialectical intelligibility of history itself, as what he called 'a totalisation without a totaliser'. But, at the same time, his substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of mass movements of popular revolt, from the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century to the Russian and Chinese revolutions in the twentieth: their ascent, stabilisation, petrification and decline, in a world still overwhelmingly dominated by scarcity.

Author Biography:

Jean-Paul Sartre was a philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps modernes. Born in Paris in 1905, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 - and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, The Freud Scenario, War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness. He died in 1980.

Release date Australia

August 17th, 2004

Author

Jean Paul Sartre

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributors

Edited by Jonathan Ree
Foreword by Fredric Jameson
Translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith

Edition

2nd edition

Pages

858

Dimensions

135x216x46

ISBN-13

9781859844854

Product ID

1709340

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