Critique Dialect Reason V1 Rev Pa

by Sartre,Jean-Paul (Intro By Fr

• ISBN13: 9781859844854
• ISBN10: 1859844855
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-17
• Publisher: Verso Books

Summary

Here, Sartre began a new theory of history that he believed was necessary for postwar Marxism. His substantive concern was the structure of class struggle and the fate of the 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.

Author Biography

Jean-Paul Sartre was a prolific philosopher, novelist, public intellectual, biographer, playwright and founder of the journal Les Temps Modernes. 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 Nausea, Intimacy, The Flies, No Exit, Sartre’s War Diaries, Critique of Dialectical Reason, and the monumental treatise Being and Nothingness.

Fredric Jameson 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 Postmodernism, Or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, The Cultural Turn, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, Brecht and Method, Ideologies of Theory, Valences of the Dialectic, The Hegel Variations and Representing Capital.

Table of Contents

EDITOR'S NOTE	xi
FORWORD by Fredric Jameson	xiii
INTRODUCTION	13	(2)
I THE DOGMATIC DIALECTIC AND THE CRITICAL DIALECTIC	15	(27)
1 Dialectical Monism	15	(3)
2 Scientific and Dialectical Reason	18	(3)
3 Hegelian Dogmatism	21	(2)
4 The Dialectic in Marx	23	(1)
5 Thought, Being and Truth in Marxism	24	(2)
6 The External Dialectic in Modern Marxism	26	(1)
7 The Dialectic of Nature	27	(2)
8 Critique of the External Dialectic	29	(3)
9 The Domain of Dialectical Reason	32	(10)
II CRITIQUE OF CRITICAL INVESTIGATION	42	(35)
1 The Basis of Critical Investigation	42	(1)
2 Dialectical Reason as Intelligibility	43	(2)
3 Totality and Totalisation	45	(2)
4 Critical Investigation and Totalisation	47	(2)
5 Critical Investigation and Action	49	(2)
6 The Problem of Stalinism	51	(2)
7 The Problem of the Individual	53	(4)
8 Totalisation and History	57	(1)
9 Primary and Secondary Intelligibility	57	(7)
10 The Plan of this Work	64	(6)
11 The Individual and History	70	(4)
12 Intellection and Comprehension	74	(3)
BOOK I FROM INDIVIDUAL PRAXIS TO THE PRACTICO-INERT	77	(266)
I INDIVIDUAL PRAXIS AS TOTALISATION	79	(16)
1 Need	79	(4)
2 The Negation of the Negation	83	(6)
3 Labour	89	(6)
II HUMAN RELATIONS AS A MEDIATION BETWEEN DIFFERENT SECTORS OF MATERIALITY	95	(27)
1 Isolated Individuals	95	(5)
2 Duality and the Third Party	100	(9)
3 Reciprocity, Exploitation and Repression	109	(13)
III MATTER AS TOTALISED TOTALITY: A FIRST ENCOUNTER WITH NECESSITY	122	(134)
1 Scarcity and Mode of Production	122	(31)
(i) Scarcity and History	125	(15)
(ii) Scarcity and Marxism	140	(13)
2 Worked Matter as the Alienated Objectification of Individual and Collective Praxis	153	(67)
(i) Matter as Inverted Praxis	161	(36)
(ii) Interest	197	(23)
3 Necessity as a New Structure of Dialectical Investigation	220	(8)
4 Social Being as Materiality: Class Being	228	(28)
IV COLLECTIVES	256	(87)
1 Series: the Queue	256	(14)
2 Indirect Gatherings: the Radio Broadcast	270	(7)
3 Impotence as a Bond: the Free Market	277	(16)
4 Series and Opinion: the Great Fear	293	(13)
5 Series and Class: the French Proletariat	306	(12)
6 Collective Praxis	318	(25)
BOOK II FROM GROUPS TO HISTORY	343	(478)
I THE FUSED GROUP	345	(60)
1 The Genesis of Groups	345	(6)
2 The Storming of the Bastille	351	(12)
3 The Third Party and the Group	363	(11)
4 The Mediation of Reciprocity: the Transcendence-Immanence Tension	374	(8)
5 The Intelligibility of the Fused Group	382	(23)
II THE STATUTORY GROUP	405	(40)
1 The Surviving Group: Differentiation	405	(12)
2 The Pledge	417	(11)
3 Fraternity and Fear	428	(17)
III THE ORGANISATION	445	(60)
1 Organised Praxis and Function	445	(18)
2 Reciprocity and Active Passivity	463	(16)
3 Structures: the Work of Levi-Strauss	479	(26)
(i) Structure and Function	484	(7)
(ii) Structure and System	491	(8)
(iii) Structure and the Group's Idea of Itself	499	(6)
IV THE CONSTITUTED DIALECTIC	505	(59)
1 Individual and Common Praxis: the Manhunt	505	(14)
2 Spontaneity and Command	519	(5)
3 Disagreements in Organisational Sub-groups	524	(15)
4 Praxis as Process	539	(20)
5 Taylorism	559	(5)
V THE UNITY OF THE GROUP AS OTHER: THE MILITANT	564	(12)
VI THE INSTITUTION	576	(88)
1 Mediated Reciprocity in the Group	576	(7)
2 Purges and Terror	583	(16)
3 Institutionalisation and Inertia	599	(8)
4 Institutionalisation and Sovereignty	607	(28)
5 States and Societies	635	(7)
6 Other-direction: the Top Ten, Racism and Antisemitism	642	(13)
7 Bureaucracy and the Cult of Personality	655	(9)
VII THE PLACE OF HISTORY	664	(71)
1 The Reciprocity of Groups and Collectives	664	(7)
2 The Circularity of Dialectical Investigation	671	(7)
3 The Working Class as Institution, Fused Group and Series	678	(32)
4 Economism, Materialism and Dialectics	710	(6)
5 Racism and Colonialism as Praxis and Process	716	(19)
VIII CLASS STRUGGLE AND DIALECTICAL REASON	735	(86)
1 Scarcity, Violence and Bourgeois Humanism	735	(19)
2 Malthusianism as the Praxis-Process of the Bourgeoisie	754	(40)
(i) June 1848	754	(16)
(ii) Bourgeois `Respectability' in the Late Nineteenth Century	770	(11)
(iii) Class Struggle in the Twentieth Century	781	(13)
3 Class Struggle as a Conflict of Rationalities	794	(11)
4 The Intelligibility of History: Totalisation without a Totaliser	805	(16)
ANNEXE	821	(6)
GLOSSARY	827	(4)
INDEX	831	(5)
COMPARATIVE PAGINATION CHART	836