A Commentary on Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume 1, Theory of Practical Ensembles by Catalano, Joseph S

Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Nearly fine copy. 1986. 1st. softcover. 8vo, 282 pp., Pencil marks on a few pages, else fine. .

University of Chicago Press, 1987. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Chicago Press Journals, 1985. Paperback. Clean & Unmarked. 6x0x9. A very clean and straight copy. Clean text and an uncreased spine. 282 pp.

Paperback. New. Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason ranks with Being and Nothingness as a work of major philosophical significance, but it has been largely neglected. The first volume, published in 1960, was dismissed as a Marxist work at a time when structuralism was coming into vogue; the incomplete second volume has only recently been published in France. In this commentary on the first volume, Joseph S. Catalano restores the Critique to its deserved place among Sartre's works and within philosophical discourse as a whole. Sartre attempts one of the most needed tasks of our times, Catalano asserts-the delivery of history into the hands of the average person. Sartre's concern in the Critique is with the historical significance of everyday life. Can we, he asks, as individuals or even collectively, direct the course of our history? A historical context for our lives is given to us at birth, but we sustain that context with even our most mundane actions-buying a newspaper, waiting in… Read More

University of Chicago Press, 1987. Paperback. New. 294 pages. 8.90x6.00x0.70 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

University of Chicago Press, 1985-09-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!