SARTRE (Jean-Paul).
Critique de la raison dialectique (précédé de Questions de méthode). Tome 1: Théorie des ensembles pratiques. [with:] Tome II (inachevé): L'intelligibilité de l'Histoire.
The third and final of Sartre’s principal philosophical works, complete with the posthumously published second volume - both volumes are fine large-paper copies.
The Critique of Dialectical Reason is Sartre’s attempt to synthesise his existentialist view of human freedom with a Marxist theory of history, a project initiated by the publication of Search for a Method in 1957, which appears as the introduction to the first volume of the Critique. Sartre’s aim here is a complete revitalisation of the promise of Marxism through reconceptualisation of the Marxist notion of praxis in terms of the existential concept of project. Sartre proposes a concept of praxis as a projective action of human consciousness which creates history and makes it intelligible, which is simultaneously conditioned by the external environment.
The second volume, subtitled The Intelligibility of History, appeared posthumously in 1985 under the editorship of Sartre’s adoptive daughter Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre (1935-2016).
