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It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that
Sartre accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the
Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture
("Existentialism Is a Humanism") was to expound his philosophy as a
form of "existentialism," a term much bandied about at the time.
Sartre asserted that existentialism was essentially a doctrine for
philosophers, though, ironically, he was about to make it
accessible to a general audience. The published text of his lecture
quickly became one of the bibles of existentialism and made Sartre
an international celebrity.
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 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'.
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