The second volume of sartres critique of dialectical reason was drafted in 1958 and published in france in 1985 first appearing in english in 1991 as in volume one sartre proceeds by moving from the simple to the complex from individual combat through a perceptive study of boxing to the struggle of subgroups within an organized group form and finally to social struggle with an extended analysis of the bolshevik revolution the book concludes with a forceful reaffirmation of . Critique of dialectical reason volume one by jean paul sartre isbn 13 9781859844854 isbn 10 1859844855 paperback london verso june 10 2004 isbn 13 978 1859844854 a commentary on jean paul sartres critique of dialectical sartres critique of dialectical reason ranks with being and nothingness as a work of major philosophical significance but it has been largely neglected the first volume . Seeking to give marxism what michael mcgee called a more rigorous intellectual defense sartre wrote volume one of critique of dialectical reason cdr between 1957 1960 it was published in france in 1960 the first english edition appeared in 1976 a second unfinished volume appeared posthumously in 1982. The critique of dialectical reason grew out of sartres increasing disagreement with marxist theory as well as his disenchantment with the realities of life in soviet russia in immediate terms this book grew out of the intellectual sparing between himself this is an advanced work on dialectical theory existentialism epistemology and ontology. Critique of dialectical reason volume i by jean paul sartre at the whitney humanities center yale university february 19 2020 the central problematic of sartres critique of dialectical reason and more broadly of his entire critical project after 1960 is how to reconcile existentialism with marxism how can we resolve the contradiction between on the one hand a marxist philosophy