By Bernard E. Harcourt In his discussion of Sartre’ s Critique of Dialectical Reason in Marxism and the Existentialists (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), Raymond Aron draws our attention to a passage, at the end of a note on… Continue Reading
By Maximilian Ringleb* Two decades after the publication of his existentialist masterpiece Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre returned to contemporary philosophical thought with the publication of Critique of Dialectic Reason in 1960. Having previously proposed “the most radical view of… Continue Reading
By TJ Thompson Projects in critical theory often fall into two main camps: the substantive and the methodological. For example, Gender Trouble, despite its methodological innovation, is a text that at its core builds a substantive claim about the nature… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “I consider Marxism to be the unsurpassable philosophy of our time.” — Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960)[1] These now-famous words rocked the French intellectual scene in the late 1950s, sending ripples across generations of… Continue Reading