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| Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
|---|---|
| Original title | Critique de la raison dialectique |
| Translator | Alan Sheridan-Smith |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Marxism |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 1960 (vol. 1) 1985 (vol. 2) |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1976 (vol. 1) 1991 (vol. 2) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 835 (English ed., vol. 1) 467 (English ed., vol. 2) |
| ISBN | 0-86091-757-6 (vol. 1) 0-86091-311-2 (vol. 2) |
Critique of Dialectical Reason (French: Critique de la raison dialectique) is a 1960 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author further develops the existentialist Marxism he first expounded in his essay Search for a Method (1957).[1] 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.[2] Critique of Dialectical Reason was Sartre's second large-scale philosophical treatise, Being and Nothingness (1943) having been the first.[1] The book has been seen by some as an abandonment of Sartre's original existentialism,[3] while others have seen it as a continuation and elaboration of his earlier work.[4] It was translated into English by Alan Sheridan-Smith.[5]
The first volume, "Theory of Practical Ensembles", was first published in English in 1976; a corrected English translation was published in 1991, based on the revised French edition of 1985.[5] The second volume, "The Intelligibility of History", was published posthumously in French in 1985 with an English translation by Quintin Hoare appearing in 1991.[6]
Sartre is quoted as having said this was the principal of his two philosophical works for which he wished to be remembered.[7][8]
- ^ a b Baldwin, Thomas (2005). Honderich, Ted (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 835. ISBN 0-19-926479-1.
- ^ Barnes, Hazel; Sartre, Jean-Paul (1968). Search for a Method. New York: Vintage Books. pp. ix-x. ISBN 0-394-70464-9.
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Catalanowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ a b Sartre, Jean-Paul (1991). Critique of Dialectical Reason Volume 1: Theory of Practical Ensembles. London: Verso. p. 4. ISBN 0-86091-757-6.
- ^ Sartre, Jean-Paul (1991). Critique of Dialectical Reason Volume 2: The Intelligibility of History. London: Verso. p. iv.
- ^ Sartre at 70: An interview Full text of the interview in which the author gives his opinion in the New York Review of Books. Actual question (at beginning of Part II) is "And which of your works do you hope to see the new generation take up again?"
- ^ Infidels, Freethinkers, Humanists, and Unbelievers Sartre after Literature ¶ 3. Typical of the secondary sources referring to the actual text in the interview.