Critique of Dialectical Reason

Critique of Dialectical Reason by Sartre, Jean-Paul; Sheridan-Smith, Alan Mark; Reé, Jonathan. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780902308015.

Critique of Dialectical Reason further develops the Existentialist Marxism that Sartre first expounded in his 1957 essay "Search for a Method." 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. Sartres second large-scale philosophical treatise, Critique of Dialectical Reason has been seen as an abandonment of Sartres original Existentialism. It was translated into English by Alan Sheridan-Smith.[4] The first volume, first published in English 1976, is "Theory of Practical Ensembles," which consists of two books, both of which are included in one bound volume. The second volume, "The Intelligibility of History," was published posthumously in French in 1985 and in English in 1991. Critique of Dialectical Reason was written in the wake of the rejection of Communism by leftist French intellectuals who also wanted to revive Marxism, a process that destroyed Sartres friendship with Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Sartre conceded that he had "learned History" from Merleau-Ponty, and that the Critique of Dialectical Reason was the testimony to this.