Problem Method by Sartre Jean Paul (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st UK. 181 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has minor dents and rips, with some fading and staining. Binding is in generally good shape. This 1957 essay by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre attempts to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. Sartre argues that existentialism and Marxism are compatible, even complementary, even though Marxism's materialism and determinism might seem to contradict the abstraction and radical freedom of existentialism. Previous owner's name signed on interior front end page, otherwise clean copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Notations inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hbk, xxxv, 181 pages. Some foxing to edges, previous owner's name on ffep and some minor annotations in pencil only o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Dust-wrapper also in very good condition. [Existentialism - Dialectical materialism] h1948 / m15292. …

FIRST UK EDITION 8vo. mauve cloth hardback, gilt, in price-clipped dust jacket. 181pp. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Slight tanning to dust jacket spine, else a VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. (Shelf 78) PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.…

Translated from the French with an Introduction by Hazel E. Barnes. First edition in English. 8vo. xxxv, [3], 181, [1] pp. Original mauve cloth, spine lettered in gilt with device in black, dust jacket (heavy spotting to edges of text-block, contents otherwise generally unmarked; jacket unevenly toned and slightly spotted, only minor shelf wear to extremities, just about a very good copy overall). London, Methuen & Co., Ltd.  The text that initiated the third and final of Sartre's principal philosophical works, originally published in 1957 as Questions de méthode in the Polish literary journal Twórczosc along with a revised version in the same year in Les Temps modernes, which was later included as the introduction to the Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). The works marks Sartre's attempt to synthesise his existentialist view of human freedom with a Marxist theory of history, a complete revitalisation of the promise of Marxism through reconceptualisation of the Marxist notion of praxis in terms of the existential concept of project. Here Sartre proposes a concept of praxis as a projective action of human consciousness which creates history and makes it intelligible, which is simultaneously conditioned by the external environment.…