Critique of Dialectical Reason
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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]
Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Original title | Critique de la raison dialectique |
Translator | Alan Sheridan-Smith |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Subject | Marxism |
Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
Publication date | 1960 (vol. 1) 1985 (vol. 2) |
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) |
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]