At the height of the Algerian war, Jean-Paul Sartre embarked on a fundamental reappraisal of his philosophical and political thought. The result was the Critique of Dialectical Reason, an intellectual masterpiece of the twentieth century, now republished with a major original introduction by Fredric Jameson.

Here, Sartre began a new theory of history that he believed was necessary for postwar Marxism. His substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of the mass movements of popular revolt, from the French Revolution at the end of the eighteenth century to the Russian and Chinese revolutions in the twentieth.

Jean-Paul Sartre was born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964—and turned it down. Also published by Verso are Sartre’s War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War, 1939–1940, and Critique of Dialectical Reason: Volume Two.
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Sept. 2002

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