Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

The Intelligibility of History

Arlette Elkaim-Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fredric Jameson , Quintin Hoare

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Verso
17 July 2006

History of Western philosophy

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'.

By: Jean-Paul Sartre
Foreword by: Fredric Jameson
Edited by: Arlette Elkaim-Sartre
Translated by: Quintin Hoare
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781844670772
ISBN 10: 1844670775
Pages: 467
Publication Date: 17 July 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean-paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980. ini 1938 he published his first novel, Nausia, and in 1943 completed his major work in existential philosophy, Being and Nothingness. A prolific novelist and playwright, biographer of Genet and Baudilaire, and founde of the journal Les Temps Modernes, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but turned it down. Sartre's increasingly political work after May 1968 was balanced by a monumental study of Flaubert. Also published by Verso are Sartre's Between Existentialism and Marxism, War Diaries, The Freud Scenario and Volume One of the Critique of Dialectical Reason.

Reviews for Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2: The Intelligibility of History

The work is a landmark in modern social thought... a turning point in the thinking of our time.' Raymond Williams, Guardian The Critique is essential to any serious understanding of Sartre. -- George Steiner, Sunday Times 'Of all the published posthumous works, Volume Two of the Critique of Dialectic Reason most strongly shows why Sartre is alive to us today... Unique among this century's great writers, Sartre - especially in his Critique II - points towards understandings and actions which may possibly return the world to its creators and so let there be a future.' Ronald Aronson