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Translated by Quintin Hoare
“A landmark in modern social thought... A turning point in the thinking of our time.” — Raymond Williams
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 in two volumes with major original introductions 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 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.
“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
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. His Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume One, and War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phony War, 1939–1940, are also available from Verso.
Publication
July 2006
468 pages
Paper
1 84467 077 5
£20.99 / US$35 / CAN$49
