| Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2 Contributor(s): Sartre, Jean-Paul (Author), Elkaim-Sartre, Arlette (Editor), Hoare, Quintin (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1844670775 ISBN-13: 9781844670772 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2006 Annotation: "A landmark in modern social thought... A turning point in the thinking of our time."--Raymond Williams 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 Reaso"n, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished in two volumes with major original introductions by Fredric Jameson. Here, Sartre began a new theory of history that he believed was necessary for postwar Marxism. 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Individual Philosophers - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory |
| Dewey: 142.78 |
| LCCN: 2006282860 |
| Series: Critique of Dialectical Reason |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.52" W x 8.38" (1.31 lbs) 498 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, this magisterial work first appeared in English in 1991 and now reappears with a major new introduction by Fredric Jameson. Volume Two's theoretical framework is a logical extension of the predecessor's. As in Volume One, Sartre proceeds by moving from the simple to the complex: from individual combat (through a perceptive study of boxing) to the struggle of subgroups within an organized group form and, finally, to social struggle, with an extended analysis of the Bolshevik Revolution. The book concludes with a forceful reaffirmation of dialectical reason: of the dialectic as 'that which is truly irreducible in action'. |