Sartre’s group theory leaves the category of social class underdeveloped

Evidence

To which it only remains to add the obvious paradox that Sartre’s Critique is also in fact not only very much a theory of groups, but also one which, unfinished as it is, seems relatively uncomfortable with the larger category of social class as such. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 1045

Categorization

• QUESTION: If Sartre’s theory of groups sits uneasily with class, what does that imply about the concept of class itself as a culture-level category? Worth chasing for the world-system cognitive map.
• XREF: connects to: The group in Sartre mirrors individual consciousness as an ontological failure; Social class fuses both serial and group structures simultaneously — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 558
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The group in Sartre mirrors individual consciousness as an ontological failure; Social class fuses both serial and group structures simultaneously — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 558