Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2 by Sartre, Jean-Paul

Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781844670772)

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Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2 by Sartre, Jean-Paul

Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

$35.00
Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2 by Sartre, Jean-Paul

Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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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'.

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN-10: 1844670775
ISBN-13: 9781844670772
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 07/17/2006
Pages: 498
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 8.38h x 6.52w x 1.07d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 7
By Jean-Paul Sartre
By Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964--and turned it down. His books include Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.

Quintin Hoare is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom.

Fredric Jameson is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

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