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On the Intelligibility of our Present History: The Contemporary Relevance of the Critique of Dialectical Reason and some other Sartrian Texts
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On the Intelligibility of our Present History: The Contemporary Relevance of the Critique of Dialectical Reason and some other Sartrian Texts
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Caws, Peter
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Philosophy
Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique, Dialectics, Reason, History, Politics |
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Jean-Paul Sartre is the writer who gave the most trenchant formulation of existentialism and tried to do the same for a version of Marxism, and as a philosopher of history who got it wrong about history and then, in his last "philosophical manifesto" – volume III of the Idiot (English version volume V) – got it brilliantly right. But Sartre did not write the second volume of the Critique. Or, more exactly, he wrote it but he did not publish it. The Critique, as Sartre himself admitted, grew like a hernia on the body of the book on Flaubert, so that it had to be surgically removed and given a life of its own; but a sort of symbiosis persisted, and when it came to the continuation of the argument, Sartre seems to have sensed that volume II was a dead end, and that the route to the alternative would prove to lie after all in the Flaubert project itself. In order to understand Sartre's position, the author analyzes his conception of history, especially of the intelligibility of history by mean of the dialectical reason as a movement of totalization of practical seriality, and shows its actuality.
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Axia Academic Publishers
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2015-12-20
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article Philosophic-Historical Approach |
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application/pdf
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http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/18
10.25180/lj.v17i2.18 |
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Labyrinth; Vol 17, No 2 (2015): History and Choice: Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-2015); 5-18
1561-8927 2410-4817 10.25180/lj.v17i2 |
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eng
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http://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/article/view/18/21
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French Philosophy
Contemporary Philosophy Continental Philosophy, Existentialism |
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Copyright (c) 2015 Peter Caws
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 |
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