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Jean-Paul Sartre Critique of Dialectical Reason.(Book Review)
Jean-Paul Sartre Critique of Dialectical Reason, translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith, Forward by Fredric Jameson. Verso, 836 pages, $25 (paper)
By one of those coincidences that reinforces one's faith in Providence, this new edition of Sartre's most unreadable book appeared on my desk the same day that Multitude arrived. Sartre wrote his Marxist apologia at breakneck speed in the late 1950s under the influence of amphetamines. The effort almost killed him. Many readers will rue the adverb.
Sartre's self-appointed task is to explain History from the standpoint of "historical materialism," i.e., what Fredric Jameson rightly describes in his foreword as "orthodox Marxism." Seen from the appropriate perspective, this 836-page Leviathan--Volume One, please note!--is a comic masterpiece-inadvertent, to be sure, and a masterpiece that remains funny only when contemplated from afar, but comic nonetheless. Professor Jameson (like Hardt, a Marxist who teaches at Duke) acknowledges the stylistic "difficulty" of Sartre's book but nevertheless compares it to ...
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