Sartre, Imagination and Dialectical Reason - Creating Society as a Work of Art

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Austin Hayden Smidt
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2019
• EAN: 9781786611673
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-167-3
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Illustrations: 4 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables
• Series: Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism