Critique of dialectical reason. Volume 1. Theory of practical ensembles /

Critique of dialectical reason. Volume 1. Theory of practical ensembles /

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Author / Creator:Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980
Uniform title:Critique de la raison dialectique. Tome 1. Thǒrie des ensembles pratiques. English
Edition:New ed.
Imprint:London ; New York : Verso/New Left Books, 2004.
Description:xxxiii, 835 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Dialectical materialism.
Dialectic.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Existentialism.
Dialectic.
Dialectical materialism.
Existentialism.
Philosophy, Marxist.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5543526
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Other authors / contributors:Rée, Jonathan, 1948-
ISBN:1859844855
Notes:Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Editor's Note
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • I. The Dogmatic Dialectic and the Critical Dialectic
  • 1. Dialectical Monism
  • 2. Scientific and Dialectical Reason
  • 3. Hegelian Dogmatism
  • 4. The Dialectic in Marx
  • 5. Thought, Being and Truth in Marxism
  • 6. The External Dialectic in Modern Marxism
  • 7. The Dialectic of Nature
  • 8. Critique of the External Dialectic
  • 9. The Domain of Dialectical Reason
  • II. Critique of Critical Investigation
  • 1. The Basis of Critical Investigation
  • 2. Dialectical Reason as Intelligibility
  • 3. Totality and Totalisation
  • 4. Critical Investigation and Totalisation
  • 5. Critical Investigation and Action
  • 6. The Problem of Stalinism
  • 7. The Problem of the Individual
  • 8. Totalisation and History
  • 9. Primary and Secondary Intelligibility
  • 10. The Plan of this Work
  • 11. The Individual and History
  • 12. Intellection and Comprehension
  • Book I. From Individual Praxis to the Practico-Inert
  • I. Individual Praxis as Totalisation
  • 1. Need
  • 2. The Negation of the Negation
  • 3. Labour
  • II. Human Relations as a Mediation between Different Sectors of Materiality
  • 1. Isolated Individuals
  • 2. Duality and the Third Party
  • 3. Reciprocity, Exploitation and Repression
  • III. Matter as Totalised Totality: a First Encounter with Necessity
  • 1. Scarcity and Mode of Production
  • (i). Scarcity and History
  • (ii). Scarcity and Marxism
  • 2. Worked Matter as the Alienated Objectification of Individual and Collective Praxis
  • (i). Matter as Inverted Praxis
  • (ii). Interest
  • 3. Necessity as a New Structure of Dialectical Investigation
  • 4. Social Being as Materiality: Class Being
  • IV. Collectives
  • 1. Series: the Queue
  • 2. Indirect Gatherings: the Radio Broadcast
  • 3. Impotence as a Bond: the Free Market
  • 4. Series and Opinion: the Great Fear
  • 5. Series and Class: the French Proletariat
  • 6. Collective Praxis
  • Book II. From Groups to History
  • I. The Fused Group
  • 1. The Genesis of Groups
  • 2. The Storming of the Bastille
  • 3. The Third Party and the Group
  • 4. The Mediation of Reciprocity: the Transcendence--Immanence Tension
  • 5. The Intelligibility of the Fused Group
  • II. The Statutory Group
  • 1. The Surviving Group: Differentiation
  • 2. The Pledge
  • 3. Fraternity and Fear
  • III. The Organisation
  • 1. Organised Praxis and Function
  • 2. Reciprocity and Active Passivity
  • 3. Structures: the Work of Levi-Strauss
  • (i). Structure and Function
  • (ii). Structure and System
  • (iii). Structure and the Group's Idea of Itself
  • IV. The Constituted Dialectic
  • 1. Individual and Common Praxis: the Manhunt
  • 2. Spontaneity and Command
  • 3. Disagreements in Organisational Sub-groups
  • 4. Praxis as Process
  • 5. Taylorism
  • V. The Unity of the Group as Other: the Militant
  • VI. The Institution
  • 1. Mediated Reciprocity in the Group
  • 2. Purges and Terror
  • 3. Institutionalisation and Inertia
  • 4. Institutionalisation and Sovereignty
  • 5. States and Societies
  • 6. Other-direction: the Top Ten, Racism and Antisemitism
  • 7. Bureaucracy and the Cult of Personality
  • VII. The Place of History
  • 1. The Reciprocity of Groups and Collectives
  • 2. The Circularity of Dialectical Investigation
  • 3. The Working Class as Institution, Fused Group and Series
  • 4. Economism, Materialism and Dialectics
  • 5. Racism and Colonialism as Praxis and Process
  • VIII. Class Struggle and Dialectical Reason
  • 1. Scarcity, Violence and Bourgeois Humanism
  • 2. Malthusianism as the Praxis-Process of the Bourgeoisie
  • (i). June 1848
  • (ii). Bourgeois 'Respectability' in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • (iii). Class Struggle in the Twentieth Century
  • 3. Class Struggle as a Conflict of Rationalities
  • 4. The Intelligibility of History: Totalisation without a Totaliser
  • Annexe
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Comparative Pagination Chart

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