The Meaning and Truth of History: A Note on Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason

Author: Catalano, Joseph S.

Source: Sartre Studies International, Volume 13, Number 2, Winter 2007 , pp. 47-64(18)

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My goal in writing this article is to give a brief overview of the two volumes of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. After a brief introduction, I proceed in three stages that move from the abstract to the concrete. I thus trace the development of such notions as comprehension into the dialectic, praxis into singularity and incarnation, the practico-inert into the totalization-of-envelopment, and the enhancement of the notion of scarcity as a general historical condition into a collective free choice. I also suggest new divisions for Critique II.

Keywords: SARTRE; COMPREHENSION; PRAXIS; PRACTICO-INERT; INCARNATION; SINGULARITY; TOTALIZATION-OF-ENVELOPMENT; STRUGGLE; SCARCITY

DOI: 10.3167/ssi.2007.130203

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