[Marxism] NEW TITLE: Sartre - Critique of Dialectical Reason Volume 2

[Rowan Wilson <rowanwilsonwork@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

   NEW EDITION
  Critique of Dialectical Reason
  Volume Two
  Jean-Paul Sartre
  Foreword by Fredric Jameson
   
  ?The work is a landmark in modern social thought? a turning point in the 
thinking of our time.? 
  - Raymond Williams, Guardian
   
  ?The Critique is essential to any serious understanding of Sartre.? George 
Steiner, Sunday Times
   
  ?Of all the published posthumous works, Volume Two of the Critique of 
Dialectical Reason most strongly shows why Sartre is alive to us today. ? 
Unique among this century?s great writers, Sartre ? especially in his Critique 
II ? points towards understandings and actions which may possibly return the 
world to its creators and so let there be a future.? Ronald Aronson
   
  Does history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? 
These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre?s 
Critique of Dialectical Reason. Drafted in 1958 and published in France in 
1985, this magisterial work first appeared in English in 1991 and now reappears 
with a major new introduction by Fredric Jameson.
  Volume II?s theoretical framework is a logical extension of its 
predecessor?s. As in Volume I, Sartre proceeds by moving from the simple to the 
complex: from individual combat (through a perceptive study of boxing) to the 
struggle of subgroups within an organized group form and, finally, to social 
struggle, with an extended analysis of the Bolshevik Revolution. The book 
concludes with a forceful reaffirmation of dialectical reason: of the dialectic 
as ?that which is truly irreducible in action?.
   
  AUTHOR: Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980. In 1938 
he published his first novel, Nausea, and in 1943 completed his major work in 
existentialist philosophy, Being and Nothingness. A prolific novelist and 
playwright, biographer of Genet and Baudelaire, and founder of the journal Les 
Temps Modernes, Sartre was awarded the Novel Prize for Literature in 1964 ? and 
turned it down. Sartre?s increasingly political work after May 1968 was 
balanced by a monumental study of Flaubert. Also published by Verso are 
Sartre?s Between Existentialism and Marxism, War Diaries, The Freud Scenario 
and Volume One of the Critique of Dialectical Reason.
   
  ? Title: Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume Two
  ? Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
  ? Publication: 3rd July 2006
  ? Binding: Paperback 
  ? ISBN: 1 84467 077 5
  ? Price: £20.99/$35/$49 CAN
   
  http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/sartre_dialect_reason_v2.shtml
   
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