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| Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
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| Original title | Questions de méthode |
| Translator | Hazel Barnes |
| Language | French |
| Subject | Marxism |
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| Publication place | France |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 132 (original edition) 228 (1968 Vintage edition) |
| ISBN | 978-0394704647 |
Search for a Method or The Problem of Method (French: Questions de méthode) is a 1957 essay by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author attempts to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. The first version of the essay was published in the Polish journal Twórczość; an adapted version appeared later that year in Les Temps modernes, and later served as an introduction for Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason (Paris, 1960).[1] 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.
- ^ 'Questions de méthode', Les Temps Modernes, September 1957, pp. 338-417; October 1957, pp. 658–98. 'Question de méthode', Critique de la Raison dialectique, Paris, 1960. See Ian H. Birchall, Sartre against Stalinism, pp. 173, 183