Critique de la raison dialectique

Sartre’s major two-volume work Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason), which attempts to reformulate Marxism through existentialist concepts of praxis, individual responsibility, and collective historical contingency, philosophically grounding accepted Marxist history and reworking economism into praxis-language. Its first volume ran nearly 400,000 words while the second remained unfinished.

Claims that use this term

• Sartre’s Critique first volume ran nearly 400,000 words while the second went unfinished
• Sartre’s Critique philosophically grounds already-accepted Marxist history
• The May Events of 1968 vindicated Sartre’s Critique de la raison dialectique
• Sartre’s Critique aims to reconcile individual responsibility with uncontrollable collective and contingent historical events.
• Sartre’s Critique reworked Marxist economism into praxis-language for a new era of revolutionary ferment