Critique of Dialectical Reason: Theory of Practical Ensembles (Volume 1)

Sartre, Jean-Paul

ISBN 10: 0902308017 / ISBN 13: 9780902308015

Published by NLB, 1976

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Volume 1. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1050grams, ISBN:0902308017.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critique of Dialectical Reason: Theory of Practical Ensembles (Volume 1)
• Publisher: NLB
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0902308017
• ISBN 13: 9780902308015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 1050 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

Critique of Dialectical Reason further develops the Existentialist Marxism that Sartre first expounded in his 1957 essay "Search for a Method." Critique of Dialectical Reason and Search for a Method were written as a common manuscript, with Sartre intending the former to logically precede the latter. Sartre's second large-scale philosophical treatise, Critique of Dialectical Reason has been seen as an abandonment of Sartre's original Existentialism. It was translated into English by Alan Sheridan-Smith.[4] The first volume, first published in English 1976, is "Theory of Practical Ensembles," which consists of two books, both of which are included in one bound volume. The second volume, "The Intelligibility of History," was published posthumously in French in 1985 and in English in 1991. Critique of Dialectical Reason was written in the wake of the rejection of Communism by leftist French intellectuals who also wanted to revive Marxism, a process that destroyed Sartre's friendship with Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Sartre conceded that he had "learned History" from Merleau-Ponty, and that the Critique of Dialectical Reason was the testimony to this.

About the Author

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.