Critique of dialectical reason / Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Table of Contents:
- BOOK III THE INTELLIGIBILITY OF HISTORY
- I IS STRUGGLE INTELLIGIBLE?
- 1 Conflict, Moment of a Totalization or Irreducible Rift? 3
- Three Factors of Dialectical Intelligibility 3
- Unity of Struggle as an Event 4
- Inadequacy of Analytical Study 7
- The Labour-Conflict Relation, Constitutive of Human History 11
- Formal Contradiction in Marxist Theory 15
- 2 Relations between the Individual Conflict and the Fundamental Conflicts of the Social Ensemble 17
- Incarnation and Singularization 17
- Immediate Totalization: Incarnation 22
- Mediated Totalization: Singularization 34
- Impossibility of a Conceptualization of the Fight 45
- Conclusion 50
- 3 Intelligibility of the Conflict within a Pledged Group 51
- Indetermination and Contradiction 51
- The Common Individual Realizes the Practico-Inert as Pure Negative Praxis 58
- Unity as Meaning of the Antagonistic Relation 63
- Does the Victory of One Sub-Group over Another Always Have a Meaning? 73
- Conclusion 90
- 4 The Unresolved Struggle as Anti-Labour 95
- 5 Are Social Struggles Intelligible? A Historical Study of Soviet Society 118
- The Three Phases of Historialization 118
- Unification by the Future 121
- From the Government of Men over Things to Bureaucracy: Praxis and Praxis-Process 124
- Ambiguity of the Latent Conflict 147
- The Open Conflict, Progress towards Unity 166
- Conclusion 183
- 11 THE TOTALIZATION-OF-ENVELOPMENT IN A DIRECTORIAL SOCIETY: RELATIONS BETWEEN THE DIALECTIC AND THE ANTI-DIALECTIC
- 1 Singularity and Incarnation of the Sovereign Praxis 187
- 2 Incarnation of the Sovereign in an Individual 198
- Contingency and Appropriateness of the Incarnation 198
- The Personal Equation: Necessity of Deviation 215
- Meaning of Deviation: Man Is Not Made for Man 219
- 3 The Totalization-of-Envelopment, an Incarnation of Incarnations 228
- 4 The Spiral: Circularity and Alteration 235
- 5 The Three Factors of Unity 246
- 6 Objectivity and Idiosyncrasy an Objective Drift: Stalinist Anti-Semitism 263
- 7 Dialectical Intelligibility, a Circular Synthesis of the Disorder of Order and the Order of Disorder 272
- 8 Meaning of the Totalization-of-Envelopment 281
- 9 Being of the Totalization-of-Envelopment: Historical Idealisms and the Situated Method 301
- The Being-in-itself of the Totalization-of-Envelopment Can Only Be Vainly Aimed At 302
- Death, Experience of Nothingness-in-itself as a Window on to Being-in-itself: History Riddled with Holes 309
- The Being-in-itself of Praxis-Process: an Exterior Limit of Interiority and an Interior Limit of Exteriority 315
- III SINGULARITY OF PRAXIS: DISINTEGRATION OF THE ORGANIC CYCLE AND THE ADVENT OF HISTORY
- 1 Autonomy and Limits of Praxis in Relation to Life 339
- 2 Questioning the Category of Unity: Practical Organism or First of the Machines 347
- 3 Unity as an Invention 355
- 4 Essences as Labour and Alienation 366
- 5 Dialectical Comprehension, Control of Positive Reason in the Name of the Totalizing Temporalization 369
- 6 The Two Praxes 381
- 7 Conclusions: Safeguarding the Organism, an Irreducible Determination of Action 384
- APPENDIX The Historical Event 397
- Time 401
- Progress 402
- Science and Progress 417
- Abundance, Progress, Violence 421
- The Idea and its Historical Action 425
- The Word 426
- Totalization in Non-Dictatorial Societies 428
- Plan 430
- Totalization in a Capitalist System 431
- Themes 434
- An Example of Alteration and Unification by the Machine: the Appearance of Radio and Television 437
- An Example of Unification 441
- Totalization: the History of Venice 442
- An Order 446
- Totalization-of-Envelopment 447
- Is History Essential to Man? 450
- History Appeals to History 453.