Reason and Violence: A Decade of Sartre's Philosophy 1950-1960

Reason and Violence has been influential in presenting to the English reader aspects of Sartre's thought embodied in his three major books published between 1950 and 1960.
The three volumes included in this exposition - Saint Genet, Comédein et Martyr; Questions de Méthodes; and Critique de la Raison Dialectique - span the distance from individual biography to the basic theory of groups and social organization: from Saint Genet, perhaps the most penetrating attempt by one man to understand the life of another living man, to the Critique, which seeks to establish the dialectical bases for a structural and historical anthropology. This body of thought represents more than another synthesis of social theories and the insights of individual psychologies; it is the contribution of one of the most radical thinkers of the century to a revolution in man's understanding of himself.