The Critique of Dialectical Reason: From Need to Need, Circularly
1985; Yale University Press; Issue: 68 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/2929784
ISSN2325-8691
AutoresJuliette Simont, Thomas Trezise,
Tópico(s)Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
ResumoEverything is to be explained through need.' So says Sartre at the beginning of the first chapter of the first volume of the Critique of Dialectical Reason. And in the last pages of the manuscript of the second volume: determination of action in its entirety by the need it transcends in order to satisfy it, such is the foundation of historical materialism.2 The point of departure turns out, in accordance with what appears an eminently dialectical circularity, to be a point of arrival as well, at the end of an itinerary involving the progressive disclosure of what was nevertheless disclosed from the beginning. It is precisely for this circularity at once unfolded and folded back again upon itself, for this return to a dejac-la, that Ronald Aronson reproached Sartre in his critical review of the manuscript of the second volume.3 He indeed detects in the text something like a break, a schism, a crack, which he situates at the exact spot where Sartre, after studying the concrete evolution of the U.S.S.R. up to the Stalinism of the fifties, returns to the notion of need as the very foundation of historical materialism. Far from understanding this return as the dialectical unveiling of an evolved truth, Aronson sees in it the sign of a radical impoverishment of Sartre's thought-perhaps the depletion or exhaustion of the dialectic to which Sartre himself alludes.4 He sees Sartre suddenly lapsing into tautology, redundancy, the rehashing of an outmoded conception of Being, the sluggishness of argumentation. The abrupt change, from the brilliant
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