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'''''Critique of Dialectical Reason''''', ([[:en:French language|French]]: '''''Critique de la raison dialectique''''') (1960), ('''Volume I: Theory of Practical Ensembles''') <ref>''Critique of Dialectical Reason'' Volume I ''Theory of Practical Ensembles'' Tr. by Alan Sheridan Smith. Verso 2004 ISBN 1-85984-485-5</ref>was the last of [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s major philosophical works: it attempts to use [[:en:Existentialism|Existentialism]] as a foundational contribution to [[Marxism]] as described in ''[[:en:Search for a Method|Search for a Method]]'', both of which were written as a common manuscript of some 755 pages with Sartre intending the ''Critique'' to logically precede ''Search''<ref>"Sartre says that ''Search for a Method'' logically belongs at the end of the ''Critique'', since it is the ''Critique'' which supplies the critical foundations for the method which Sartre proposes. He places the shorter work first, partly because he feared it might otherwise seem that 'the mountain had brought forth a mouse' and partly because ''Search for a Method'' was actually written first." [[:en:Hazel Barnes|Hazel Barnes]] p ix, introduction to ''Search'' Vintage 1963 edition. Next page describes the content of the original manuscript.</ref>. The second volume with an [[:en:de-stalinization|incomplete]] treatment of the [[:en:Stalinization|Stalinization]] of the [[:en:Bolshevik|Bolshevik]] revolution was published in French in 1985 and in English in 1992.