The Problem of Method.
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Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA
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Translated from the French with an Introduction by Hazel E. Barnes. First edition in English. 8vo. xxxv, [3], 181, [1] pp. Original mauve cloth, spine lettered in gilt with device in black, dust jacket (heavy spotting to edges of text-block, contents otherwise generally unmarked; jacket unevenly toned and slightly spotted, only minor shelf wear to extremities, just about a very good copy overall). London, Methuen & Co., Ltd. The text that initiated the third and final of Sartre's principal philosophical works, originally published in 1957 as Questions de méthode in the Polish literary journal Twórczosc along with a revised version in the same year in Les Temps modernes, which was later included as the introduction to the Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). The works marks Sartre's attempt to synthesise his existentialist view of human freedom with a Marxist theory of history, a complete revitalisation of the promise of Marxism through reconceptualisation of the Marxist notion of praxis in terms of the existential concept of project. Here Sartre proposes a concept of praxis as a projective action of human consciousness which creates history and makes it intelligible, which is simultaneously conditioned by the external environment.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Problem of Method.
- Author
- SARTRE (Jean-Paul).
- Publication year
- 1963
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