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Date: Tue Aug 15 2006 - 13:46:52 EDT
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> -------------------------------------------- Rowan Wilson Publishing Manager Verso 6 Meard Street London W1F 0EG Phone: 020 7437 3546 Fax: 020 7734 0059 www.versobooks.com
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