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Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume II

This essay will explore Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume II—hereafter the 'second Critique'—from philosophical and political angles, concentrating on its relevance to Marxism and radical theory. Divided into three sections, the essay concentrates on Sartre’s philosophy, his theory of history, and his case study of Stalinism. Each section is divided into an exposition, in which Sartre’s theory is set out briefly in his own terms, and an analysis or critique, in which possible problems with and objections to Sartre’s views are laid out and explored. In terms of Sartre’s work, the second Critique stands in an ambiguous position. Sartre wrote it in a period of frenetic activity, ‘as a man obsessed, under the greatest strain, helped along by corydrame [sic] capsules’ (Aronson, : ). Written in the period following the first Critique, originally published in 1960, and thus located in Sartre’s later, more Marxist-inflected period, the book was produced at a time in which Sartre was apparently shifting his research interests—a period that began with the play The Prisoner of Altona, and which would culminate in his massive study of Flaubert, the four-volume l’Idiot de la Famille (Sartre, , , ,  [–]). His decision to embark on that project rather than complete the two-volume Critique is a mystery. This second volume, published History, scarcity, praxis ... and Stalin?