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'.
Volume Two of Sartre's intellectual masterpiece, introduced by Fredric Jameson
About the Author
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.
Reviews
This work is a landmark in modern social thought ... a turning point in the thinking of our time. -- Raymond Williams
The Critique is essential to any serious understanding of Sartre. -- George Steiner
Of all the published posthumous works, Volume Two of the Critique of Dialectical 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781844670772
Author Arlette Elkaim-Sartre
Format Paperback
Page Count 498
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm * 30mm
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'.
Volume Two of Sartre's intellectual masterpiece, introduced by Fredric Jameson
About the Author
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.
Reviews
This work is a landmark in modern social thought ... a turning point in the thinking of our time. -- Raymond Williams
The Critique is essential to any serious understanding of Sartre. -- George Steiner
Of all the published posthumous works, Volume Two of the Critique of Dialectical 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
Book Information
ISBN 9781844670772
Author Arlette Elkaim-Sartre
Format Paperback
Page Count 498
Imprint Verso Books
Publisher Verso Books
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm * 30mm
