{"product_id":"critique-of-dialectical-reason-vol-2-paperback","title":"Critique of Dialectical Reason, Vol. 2 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArlette Elkaim-Sartre\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eQuintin Hoare\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes history produce discernible meaning? Are human struggles intelligible? These questions form the starting-point for the second volume of Sartre's \u003ci\u003eCritique of Dialectical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVolume Two's theoretical framework is a logical extension of the predecessor's. 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'.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Paul Sartre\u003c\/b\u003e was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal \u003ci\u003eLes Temps Modernes\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Paris in 1905 and died in 1980, Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964--and turned it down. His books include \u003ci\u003eNausea, Intimacy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Flies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo Exit, Sartre's War Diaries, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCritique of Dialectical Reason\u003c\/i\u003e, and the monumental treatise \u003ci\u003eBeing and Nothingness\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuintin Hoare\u003c\/b\u003e is the director of the Bosnian Institute and has translated numerous works by Sartre, Antonio Gramsci, and other French authors. He lives in the United Kingdom. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFredric Jameson\u003c\/b\u003e is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. The author of numerous books, he has over the last three decades developed a richly nuanced vision of Western culture's relation to political economy. He was a recipient of the 2008 Holberg International Memorial Prize. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003ePostmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Modernist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchaeologies of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBrecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eValences of the Dialectic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hegel Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRepresenting Capital.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 498\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 8.38 x 6.52 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750836404512,"sku":"9781844670772","price":40.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3ff6e3de3bb17c9c98f07aebd5bb3e98.webp?v=1779958989","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/critique-of-dialectical-reason-vol-2-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}