Austin Hayden Smidt

Sartre, Imagination and Dialectical Reason

Creating Society as a Work of Art

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Produktbeschreibung

There are perpetual debates about the extent of freedom in politics. Are we free to choose? Are we overdetermined by our material conditions? Some hybrid between the two? In this text, Austin Hayden Smidt analyzes an oft-overlooked text by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to ground a logical framework for exploring this problem.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 493g
• ISBN-13: 9781538153079
• ISBN-10: 1538153076
• Artikelnr.: 63246798

Autorenporträt

Austin Hayden Smidt is a political philosopher, producer, writer, podcaster and performer. His research is most concerned with analyzing social life under the conditions of capitalism in order to envision better arrangements. He is the producer of the cinematic adaptation of the best-selling book Inventing the Future and co-host of the Show Me the Meaning and Owls at Dawn podcasts.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary of Terms
Introduction: Rediscovering Sartre in a Completely Natural Way
Introduction Notes
Part One: The Living Logic of Action in Critique of Dialectical Reason
Chapter 1: Dialectical Reason and the Paradoxico-Critical Orientation of
Thought
Chapter 2: Dialectical Logic and The Pervasion of Seriality: Towards a
Fresh Reading of Sartre¿s Critique of Dialectical Reason
Chapter 3: The Field of Possibles: the Practico-inert and the Exigency of
Objective Conditions
Chapter 4: Pluridimensional Seriality
Chapter 5: Freedom and the Logic of the Group
Part Two: Toward an Imaginative Logic of Action
Chapter 6: The Logic of Poetic Imagination
Chapter 7: A Tale of Two Logics
Chapter 8: Creating Society as a Work of Art
Chapter 9: Prolegomena to Any Future Critique of Political Economy
Conclusion
Conclusion Notes
Bibliography
Index