Título: Critique Of Dialectical Reason: 2
Autor: Jean Paul Sartre
Sinopse: 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 published as a two-volume set with a major new introduction by Fredric Jameson. In it, Sartre set out the basic categories for the renovated theory of history that he believed was necessary for post-war Marxism. Sartre’s formal aim was to establish the dialectical intelligibility of history itself, as what he called ‘a totalisation without a totaliser’. But, at the same time, 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: their ascent, stabilisation, petrification and decline, in a world still overwhelmingly dominated by scarcity. The second volume of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason was drafted in 1958 and published in France in 1985, first appearing in English in 1991. As in Volume One, 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’.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Critique Of Dialectical Reason: 2”, de Jean Paul Sartre, publicado pela editora Verso Press USA, em 1998 e com 1 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Verso Press USA
Páginas: 1
Ano: 1998
Edição: First English language edition
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 0860913112
ISBN13: 9780860913115
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Verso Press USA costumam oferecer leituras densas e críticas, focadas em análises políticas, sociais e históricas profundas. A experiência de leitura frequentemente envolve textos que combinam rigor acadêmico com um tom acessível, ora poético, ora didático, convidando à reflexão sobre temas como democracia, capitalismo, raça, família e conflitos globais. O catálogo privilegia obras que problematizam estruturas de poder e apresentam perspectivas plurais, muitas vezes com um viés radical ou revisionista. Há títulos que exploram tanto narrativas históricas detalhadas quanto análises teóricas complexas, com ritmo que pode variar entre o ensaístico e o quase literário.
