Critique of Dialectical Reason

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Critique of Dialectical Reason   Cover of the paperback edition Author en:Sartre Translator Alan Sheridan-Smith Language English Genre(s) Nonfiction Publisher Verso Publication date 2004 Media type Paperback Pages ~840 ISBN 1-85984-485-5 Critique of Dialectical Reason, (French: Critique de la raison dialectique) (1960), (Volume I: Theory of Practical Ensembles) was the last of Jean-Paul Sartre's major philosophical works: it attempts to use Existentialism as a foundational contribution to Marxism as described in 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. The second volume with an incomplete treatment of the Stalinization of the Bolshevik revolution was published in French in 1985 and in English in 1992. Sartre is quoted as having said this was the principal of his two philosophical works for which he wished to be remembered. Volume I Introduction The Theory of Practical Ensembles. The Dogmatic Dialectic and the Critical Dialectic Critique of Critical Investigation Book I - From Individual Praxis to the Practico-Inert Individual Praxis as Totalisation Human Relations as Mediation between Different Sectors of Materiality Matter as Totalised Totality: a First Encounter with Necessity Collectives Book II - From Groups to History The Fused Group The Statutory Group The Organization The Constituted Dialectic The Unity of the Group as Other: the Militant The Institution The Place of History Class Struggle and Dialectical Reason Volume II Main: History and its totaliser The Intelligibility of History. The Intelligibility of History Is Struggle Intelligible? Conflict, Moment of a Totalisation or Irreducible Rift? Relations between the Individual Conflict and the Fundamental Conflicts of the Social Ensemble Intelligibility of the Conflict within a Pledged Group The Unresolved Struggle as Anti-Labour Are Social Struggles Intelligible (A Historical Study of Soviet Society) The Totalisation-of-Envelopment in a Directorial Society, Relations between the Dialectic and the Anti-Dialectic Singularity and Incarnation of the Sovereign Process Incarnation of the Sovereign as an Individual The Spiral: Circularity and Alteration The Three Factors of Unity See also en:Being and Nothingness Notes External links Andy Blunden discusses some terms Sartre uses in the CDR. The 2004 Verso edition contains a larger glossary. Excerpts from Sartre's work: Full TOC and Partial Text at Google Books The Dogmatic Dialectic and the Critical Dialectic The Intelligibility of History: Totalisation without a Totaliser