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15-94] "...the dialectic, if it exists, is the individual career of its object..." CDR (p. 37

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Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U-Z

9-14Dial Dialecticlived or posited: ‘the living logic of action’ .............................. 4

Fredric Jameson: ‘The Critique is thus a language experiment’ ......... 8

Peter Caws: Dialectic_thought came first: Analytical_thought

required advanced language formulation and precision .............. 9

...................................................................................................................... Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume One,

Tr. Alan Sheridan-Smith, Published by New Left Books, 1976. (CDR15-94) [Original translation modified by my Sartrean terms and clarifications] .......................................................................................................... 10

9-14Dial Introduction: I. The Dogmatic Dialectic and CriticalI Dialectic (CDR15-41) 10

1. Dialecticposited Monismposited (CDR15-18, SM99-100) ................................. 10

Pages 17-8, Ftn 6, out of sequence at Sartre\Existentialism-Psychoanalysis, protohistory and existentialism 13

2. Scientific/analytic_Reasonposited/1neg vs. Dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg

(CDR18-21) .................................................................................... 13

......................................................... Analytic_schematizerposited (index) 16

.......................................................... Dialectic_schematizerlived (index) 17

.............................................................................................................. Dialectic ‘is a methodposited and a movementlived in the object’ (CDR20) 18

.............................................................................................................. Dialectical_circularitylived: Objectificationlived as manlived actinglived on matter; objectivitylived as matter actingI on manI (CDR224, out of

sequence) ..................................................................................... 23

.............................................................................................................. Objectivelived (index) 27

......... Pages 21-2 out of sequence at Sartre\Phenomenology-3. Hegelian Dogmatism 28

4. The Dialecticposited of MarxI (CDR23) ................................................. 28

5. ThoughtI , BeingI , and TruthI in MarxismI (CDR24) ......................... 33

Pages 24-5 continued out of sequence at Sartre\Phenomenology-3. Hegelian Dogmatism 34

Marx’s/Sartre’s materialisticI ‘monismI as a dualismI ... is ... [both] at once’ (CDR25) 34

Fredric Jameson: Worked_matter founds Sartre’s dualismI of ‘manlived mediateslived thingsI to the extent that things mediate man’ 36

6. The ExternalI Dialecticposited in Modern MarxismI (CDR26) ............... 39

7. The [Marx’s] Dialecticposited of Natureposited/1neg (CDR27) ......................... 40


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8. CritiqueI of the ExternalI Dialectic (CDR29) ..................................... 42

Dialecticalposited joiningsI cannot be confirmed at the center of inanimate Natureposited/1neg (CDR32-6, 180 out of sequence) 44

9. The Domain of Dialectical_Reasonposited (CDR36-41) ......................... 46

Prior totalizationsI ‘comprehendlived and resolve problems only insofar

as directed and limited by the concrete_totalitydial/lived of the

determinations it preserves’ (FI2:3) ............................................. 46

Thoughtlived must discoverdial/lived its own necessityCDRdial/ontology in its materialI objectlived and the material object’s necessityI in itself as material (CDR36) 49

Interiorizationlived ‘of the exteriorlived’ and the ‘exteriorizationI of the interiorI’ (SM97, out of sequence) 54

Dialectic contradictionI results from structureddial/posited materialityposited: Contradiction subsequently becomes its own motivelived force (CDR37) 56

Dialectic revealslived itself to one livinglived an inquiry into their praxisI and its epoche (CDR38) 58

If ‘these provisional remarks are challenged and modified collectively in working groups, then I shall be satisfied’ (CDR40)

.................................................................................................. 60

9-14Dial ....... Introduction: II CritiqueI of Critical_ExpérienceI (CDR42-76) .......................................................................................................... 62

1. The Basis of Critical_Expériencelived (CDR42) ................................... 62

2. Dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg as Intelligibilitydial/posited (CDR43-5)............ 63

3. ‘Totalitydial/lived and Totalizationdial/lived’ (CDR45-6) ............................... 66

............................... Totalizationlived as a developing activitylived (CDR46-7) 69

4. Critical_Expérienceposited and Totalizationlived (CDR47) ....................... 72

Totalizationlived ‘must discoverdial/lived multidimensional unity of the actlived’ (SM108-111, out of sequence) 79

5. Critical_Expérienceposited and Actionlived (CDR49) ............................... 80

6. The Problem of Stalinism [‘Anyone at all today may realizeontology [as doubly

ontological] the critical_expérience of themselvesontology/1neg as partI of the

wholedial/2neg of historical totalizationlived ... in their opposition to everything and

everyone’] (CDR49-51) ..................................................................... 81

7. The Problem of the Individuallived [Individual accedence to the dialectic]

(CDR51-2) ...................................................................................... 84

8. TotalizationI and History [the past] (CDR53-57) ................................... 86

Participation grasps [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] bonds of interioritylived linked to culturelived (CDR54) 86

We regressivelyI use the unreflectedlived content of critical_reflexion [réflexion]lived on the wholedial of contemporary knowledgeposited to elucidate commonI praxisI (CDR55) 88

9. Primarylived and Secondaryposited Intelligibility (CDR57-64) .................. 92

Dialectical_‘Reasonposited/1neg as absoluteontology intelligibilityontology of irreducibly new’—an example (CDR58) 95

Analytical_Reasonposited as syntheticdial transformationlived of its dialecticposited precursor (CDR58) 96


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Negation ‘in the very actposited of denial2neg creates a provisional totalitydial/lived; it is totalizingontology before being partial’ (CDR60)

................................................................................................ 103

Technician sees wholedial from futurelived functioningposited towards pastI obstruction (CDR60) 105

Pages 61-4, ftn. 28, out of sequence at Sartre\Language&Comprehension-Comprehension vs. geometrical proof 107

10. The Plan of this work (CDR64-69) ................................................. 107

. Anti-dialecticlived of passivitylived as permanent sealI of the inertI (CDR66) 111

.............. Constituent and constituted_dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg (CDR67)

................................................................................................ 113

At ‘this levelI ... the regressiveposited expérienceposited has reached bedrock’ (CDR67-9) 117

11. The individuallived and History [densely presents the purposes of the

Critique] (CDR70-74) ..................................................................... 120

Totalizationlived ‘which controls melived ... takes the form of necessityCDRdial/ontology for two reasons’ (CDR71) 122

The problem of necessityCDRdial: Interiorizationlived of number, quantityI, Natureposited/1neg: The threat of being a robot (CDR72)

................................................................................................ 125

In ‘the second volume ... exterioritylived is the inertI causativeposited force of Historyposited/1neg’ (CDR72) 126

There ‘is a contradictionI between intelligibility and necessityCDRdial’ (CDR73, Ftn 33) 127

.............................. CDR (79-94) continued at Negation-I. Individual Praxis as Totalization 129

4-11Dial ........................................................................................ Appendix 131

Subjectivitylived ‘and objectivitylived seem entirely useless

notionslived’[1969] ...................................................................... 131

Fredric Jameson: Sartre’s term ‘totality’ has problematic past as

hyperorganism ........................................................................ 135

E N D O F T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

9-14Dial Dialecticlived or posited: ‘the living logic of action’ Sartre\Index of Terms-DIALECTIClived movement and posited metrod;

(p. 56c) "...the dialectic is not the culmination of

historylived..."

Laing and Cooper, Reason and Violence (p. 102) "...The validity of

dialectical reason rests on its own translucency. It cannot be validated by

any other form of reason, for the ‘principles’ of dialectical reason do not


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fall within the framework of any other form of reason—they are not

‘laws’, simple ‘givens’, or inducted rules, or categories."

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dialecticlived; see below dialecticposited

BN: Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-internal_connectionsdial/lived [of

interior structures of consciousness] are dialectic

CDR (p. 38c, Fr. 156) "...The dialectic revealslived itself only to a

observerlived situated in interioritylived... In short, in order to

preserve the Hegelian idea (that Consciousness knows [connait]lived

itself in the Otherposited/1neg and knows [connait]lived the OtherI in

itself), while completely discarding its idealism, I must be able

to say that the praxis of everyone, as a dialecticallived

movementdial/lived, must reveallived itself to each as the

necessityCDRdial of his own praxis and conversely, that the

freedomCDR, for everyone, of his singular praxis must re-emerge

in everyone so as to revealI to him a dialecticlived which produces

itself and produces him in so far as it is produced. The

dialecticlived as the living logiclived of actionlived is invisible to

contemplative_reasonpositedok: it revealsI itself in the course of

praxislived as a necessaryCDRdial momentdial of it; in other words, it

is created anew in each actionI..."

(p. 57c) "... Instead of grasping [transformlivedtoposited] for

principlespositedR within ourselves, a prioric (that is to say, for

opaque limits of thoughtlived), we must [1] grasp [transformlivedtoposited]

the dialecticlived in the objectposited and [2] comprehendlivedok it—to

the same extent that each of us, individuallylivedok and the wholedial

of human historylived, produces it from this double point of view

[lived&posited respectively [1] & [2]] and is subject to it in producing it—

as the totalizingontology movementdial/lived..."

The Family Idiot (2:172c) "...To be sure, a dialecticlived is

established between the character and the interpreter: the actor

transformsc the characterlived to the precise extent that he is

transformedI by it..."

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Search for a Method: Preface (p. xxxivP, Fr. 14) "From Marxism,

which gave it a new birth, the ideology of existence inherits two

exigencieslived c (from Hegelianism through MarxismI): if such a

thing as a Truthposited/1neg can existI in anthropologyc, it must be a

truthlived that has become, and it must make itself a totalization [in

course]dial/ontology. It goes without saying that this double exigencyI

defines that movementdial/lived of Beingposited/1negok and of knowing

[connaissance]lived (or of comprehensionlivedok) which since HegelI is

called ‘dialectic’e...";

(p. 111c, Fr. 89, ce) "...The dialecticalposited knowing

[connaissance]lived of man, according to Hegel and Marx, demands a

new rationalityc. Because nobody has been willing to establish

this rationality within expérienceposited, I state as a factposited—

absolutely no one, either in the East or in the West, writes or

speaks a sentence or a word about us and our contemporaries

that is not a gross error."

CDR (CDRp. 63c) "...the principleposited of dialectical evidencedial/livedc

must be the perceptionposited of a developing praxis in the light of

its final term..."

CDRII (p. 17c, Fr. 26) "If totalization [in course]lived is reallylived an

ongoing process, it operates everywhere. This means at once [à

la fois] that there is a dialecticalposited meaningCDR of the practical

ensemblelived..."

The Family Idiot (1:17-8c, and animals) "e...What, precisely, is this

radicalontology heterogeneity of Gustave’s mental life and

languagelived? Merely to demonstrate an apparent incompatibility

is not enough; it must be defined with precision. (1:18) Indeed,

no human animalR [as unreflective]—I will even say no mammal—

whether it speaks or not, can live without entering into the

dialecticallived movementdial/lived of the signifierlived and the

signifiedlivedc. For the simple reason that meaningCDRlived is born

of the projectc..."

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Foucault\Politics-Problematic thought as neither logic, Hegel’s

negative, nor contradiction. See also Foucault, The Order of


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Things (p. 263). A more complete citation of Foucault’s

considerations of dialectic are in Sartre Studies, Vol 16, No 2,

Thomas R. Flynn, "Sartre, Foucault, and the Critique of

(Dialectical) Reason," p. 17-35.

Heidegger\Boredom-RMethodological considerations:

Ambiguity vs. dialectic, with Fundamental Concepts of

Metaphysics (p. 187) "The essential feature of the circular

movement of philosophy does not lie in running around the

periphery and returning to the point of departure. It lies in the

view of the center that this circular course alone can provide...

The circular character of philosophical thought is directly bound

up with its ambiguity, an ambiguity that is not to be eliminated

or, still less, leveled off by means of dialectic ... [as] we

repeatedly find in the history of philosophy... Yet all dialectic in

philosophy is only the expression of an embarrassment."

Nietzsche\Knowledge-Dialectic (index); Foucault, The Order of

Things (p. 263c) "It was Nietzsche ... who burned for us ... the

intermingled promises of the dialectic and anthropology."

9-14Dial Fredric Jameson: ‘The Critique is thus a language experiment’ Fredric Jameson, "Forward," to the 2004 reprinted Volume One of

Critique of Dialectical Reason (p. xiii) "e...now that structuralism has

followed existentialism into intellectual history, it is the notorious stylistic

difficulty of the Critique that offers the more fundamental reason why all

those who ought to be most immediately concerned by it e... have given it

a wide berth."

(p. xiv-xvi) "As for the undoubted difficulty and occasional

unreadibility of this text ... It is meant to be a study of two kinds of

thinking, analytic reason and dialectical reason. (p. xv) But unlike so much

of Sartre’s philosophy, it does not have as its primary function the

invention of new philosophical concepts (although new terms and

concepts do emerge from it). Rather, it is an operation in matching an

already existing dialectical language or code against a series of individual

and collective experiences. The Critique is thus from this standpoint to be

seen as an austere and formalistic exercise, without any instrumental


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coloration, like late Bach; and it invites us to judge whether the rewriting

of this or that type of historical content in the terminology, for example, of

the negation1 of the negation2 (or of subject and object, passive and active,

multiplicity and unification, transcendent and immanent, exteriority and

interiority) is successful: that is, whether the new formulations have a new

and heightened kind of intelligibility in their own right. This can be an

exasperating process, particularly when Sartre tries out various different

versions of this matching in succession. But the reader’s interest will be

fully stimulated only if this unique and peculiar linguistic operation is the

center of the focuse... Yet, for the reader, in order to read and understand

the work in the first place, as with most original philosophies, we are here

required to learn what amounts to a new language, as Sartre constructs one

out of his matching and rewriting enterprise, a new artificial language he

not only devised but taught himself to speak with occasional maddening

fluency. (p. xvi) The Critique is thus a ‘language experiment,’ and the

reader is to be reassured that with a little practice its rhythms fall into

place."

(p. xvii) "As if all this were not enough, the very status of Volume I

of the Critique makes for some additional complications. For it is in effect

a preparatory volume, and never arrives at what will presumably be the

central concern of this philosophical enterprise, namely the meaning of

history. What are being laid in place in this volume (the only completed

one) are merely the basic sociological and even metaphysical concepts, the

static instruments, required before we set ‘history’ in motione... Marxism

and the tradition now already exists, so that it is not a question of

expounding utterly new conceptualities but rather critically and

dialectically reexamining those in place to restore to them a dialectical

spirit which has long since evaporated in the hands of the various

orthodoxies. And this is a task that probably has to proceed, à la Hobbes,

in a more or less analytical fashion."

9-14Nega Peter Caws: Dialectic_thought came first: Analytical_thought

required advanced language formulation and precision Caws, Sartre (p. 150) "...analytic thought, far from being a universal

talent, is a late product of human society, and a kind of ‘reason in act’,


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relativized to particular circumstances, long preceded it. ‘Reason has

always existed’, says Marx, ‘but not always in rational form’ (Marx

1967:213). Analytic thought comes late because it requires formulation in

language—it depends on the concept of contradiction, not merely that of

negation—and because it depends on agreed standards of precision in the

use of language. And thought must have been dialectical before it became

analytic, since standards of precision could not have been conceived of

except in reaction to a conscious sense of deficiency in that respect, i.e.,

by a negation of previous linguistic practice. But thought cannot be

analytic without knowing that it is so—in the sense that notions of

affirmation, denial, consequence, and inconsistency are necessarily part of

the conceptual repertoire, as a matter of practical if not theoretical

awareness, of everyone who can be said to reason analytically—although

it might well be dialectical without realizing this. It is natural for those

who first think about reason to do so in analytic terms, and for the concept

of dialectic to be a later acquisition. And this seems to hold true in the

history of philosophy; as Sartre says, ‘Dialectical thought became

conscious of itself, historically, at the beginning of the last century [1800's]’

(CDR 823)."

Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume One,

Tr. Alan Sheridan-Smith, Published by New Left Books, 1976. (CDR15-

94) [Original translation modified by my Sartrean terms and clarifications]

9-14Dial Introduction: I. The Dogmatic Dialectic and CriticalI

Dialectic (CDR15-41)

9-14DiaI 1. Dialecticposited Monismposited (CDR15-18, SM99-100) Sartre CDR (p. 15, Fr. 135) "Everything we established in The Search

for a Method follows from our fundamental agreement in principleposited,

with dialectical_materialismposited. But as long as we present this

agreement merely as one simple option among other possiblelived options

we shall have achieved nothing, and our conclusions will remain


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conjectural. We have proposed certain arrangements of methodposited; but

they cannot be validdial/lived, in fact they cannot even be discussed, unless the

hypothesis of the materialist_dialecticpositedc can be assumed to be truelived.

If one wishes in effect to workout the detail of an analytic-syntheticc and

regressive-progressivepositedc methodposited, it is necessaryCDRdial to convince

oneself that a negation1 of a negation2 can be an affirmationR, that

conflicts—in the interiorlived of a personlived or a grouplived—are the

motivelivedok force of Historyposited/1neg, that each momentdial of a serieslived

must comprehendlivedok itself on the basis of the initial momentdial though be

irreducible to it, that Historyposited/1neg continually effects

totalizationsdial/lived/1neg of totalizationsdial/lived/2neg, and so on.

"But these principlesposited cannot be considered as taken for granted

received truths; On the contrary most anthropologistsR would reject them.

Certainly, the determinism of the positivists is necessarilyCDRdial a form of

materialism, whatever its object of study, it [positivism] gives its objectI the

characteristics of mechanical materialityI, namely inertiac and the

conditions of exterioritylived. But it normally rejects the reinteriorizationlived

of the different momentsdial in a syntheticdial progressionposited. Where we

see the developmental unity of a single process, the positivistsI will

attempt to show several independent, exteriorposited factors of which the

eventlived under consideration is the resultant. What the positivistsI reject is

a monismR of interpretation...[discussion of claims of ‘the excellent historian

Georges Lefebvre’]"

(CDRp. 16, Fr. 136) "...It is not a matter even of showing that such

synthesesdial are possiblelived, but of establishing that they are required: not

any particular one, but in general that the scientist must adopt, in every

case and at every level, a totalizingontology attitude in connectionok [of three

degrees]ontology&ontology with their subject matterontology.

"Let us not forget that anthropologistsI never reject the dialectical

methodposited absolutely...[pages 16-7 on Lefebvre and the ‘sociologist Georges

Gurvitch’]" (CDRp. 18, Fr. 138) "Within the limits of an empirical anthropologyI this

distrust of the a priori is perfectly justified. I have shown in The Problem

of Method that this same condition would have permitted a lived Marxism

to incorporate into itself the disciplines which have hitherto remained


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apart from it. However, whatever else one may say about it, this

incorporation must consist in rediscoveringdial/lived beneath the classical

determinismI of certain ‘fields’, their dialectical joiningok with the

ensemblelived or, where we are dealing with processes already recognized as

dialecticallived, in manifesting this regional dialecticlived as the expression of

a deeper totalizingI movementdial/lived. In the end, this signifieslived that we

must return to the necessityCDRdial to found the dialecticposited as the universal

methodposited and universal lawontology of anthropologyI. And this amounts to

requiring MarxistsI to found [fonder] their methodI a priori: whatever may

be, in effect, the joiningsok proven in expérienceposited will never be

sufficient to found a [Marxist] dialectical_materialismposited. Such an

extrapolation—that is, an infinitely infinite extrapolation—is

radicallyontology different from scientific induction."

Sartre, Search for a Method (p. 99-100P, Fr. 80) sartre¶ "Only the project,

as a mediationlived between two momentsdial of objectivitylived, can account

for Historyposited/1neg; that is, for human creativity. It is necessaryCDRdial to

chooselived. In effect: either we reduce everything to [logical] identity (which

amounts to substituting a mechanistic materialismI for

dialectical_materialismposited)—or we make of dialecticI a celestial lawontology

which imposes itself on the Universe, a metaphysical force which by itself

engenders the historicallived process (a fall back into Hegelian idealism)—

or we restore to the singular manlived his power to surpass1neg his situation

by means of work and actionlived. This solution alone enables us to base the

movementdial/lived of totalizationlived upon the reallived. We must lookI for

dialecticlived in the connectionok [of three degrees]lived&posited of men with

Natureposited/1neg, with ‘the starting condition,’ and [look for the dialecticlived] in

the relationok [of three degrees]lived&lived ok of menlived/1neg with one anotherlived/2neg.

There is where it gets its start, resulting from the confrontation of

projectsI. (SMp. 100) The characteristics of the humanI projectI alone permit

us to comprehendlivedok that this result is a new realitylived provided with its

own significationlived instead of remaining simply a statistical mean5..."

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Ftn. 5 "e...It is impossible to conceive of the apparitionok of systematic

processes such as capitalism or colonialism if we consider the resultants of


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antagonistic forces to be means. We must comprehendlivedok that

individualslived do not collide like molecules, but that, upon the basis of

given2neg conditions and divergent and opposed interests, each one

comprehendsIok and surpasses1neg the projectI of the otherlived. It is by these

surpassingsI and surpassingsI of surpassingsI that a social_objectlived may be

constituteddial/group which, taken as a wholedial ensemblelivedc, is a realitylived

provided with meaningCDR and something in which nobody can completely

recognize himself; in short, a humanI work without an author [authorless

act]c. Means, as Engels and statisticians conceive of them, suppress the

author, but by the same stroke they suppress the work and its

‘humanity’e..."

Pages 17-8, Ftn 6, out of sequence at Sartre\Existentialism-Psychoanalysis,

protohistory and existentialism 7-15Dial 2. Scientific/analytic_Reasonposited/1neg vs.

Dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg (CDR18-21) Sartre, CDR (p. 19, Fr. 138) "The supreme paradox of Marxist’

historical_materialismposited**2 is that it is, at once [à la fois], the only truth of

Historyposited/1neg and a total indetermination of the Truthposited/1neg. The

totalizingontology thoughtlived of historical_materialismposited [and of the physicists

below] has established everything except its own existencee more on Marxists... In

other words, we do not know [sait]lived what it means for a Marxist historian

to speak the truth. Not that the content of his statements are false, far

from it; but he does not have at his disposal the significationlived:

Truthposited/1negc. In this way, MarxismI [and physicists below] presents itself to

us, as ideologists, as a disclosure of Beingposited/1negc, and at the same time as

an unanswered interrogation as to the stage of the unfulfilled exigencylived

carried over from this disclosure.

(CDRp. 19-20, Fr. 138) "In response to this, it may be claimed that

physicists are not concerned with the foundation of their inductions. This

is true. But there is a general, formalposited principleposited; that there are strict

relationsokposited&posited as 1st&2neg between factsposited. This signifiedlived: the

realitylivedc is rationaldial/lived or posited***4. But is this reallylived a principleposited,

in the ordinary sense of the term? Let us say, rather, that it is the condition

and fundamental structuredial/lived of scientific praxis. Through

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experimentation, as through any other form of activitylived, human actionI

posits and imposes its own possibilitylived. Praxisc does not, even

dogmatically, affirm the absolute rationalitypositedc of the realI , if this means

that realityI obeys a definite system of a priori principlesposited and

lawsontology, or, in other words, that it complies with a certain type of

constituteddial/group reasonok. Whatever the object of his research, whatever

its orientation, the scientist, in his activityI, assumes that realitylived will

always manifest itself in such a way that a provisional and fluid

rationalityposited can be constitutedI in and through it. This amounts to

affirmingdial that the humanI mind will accept everything presented to it by

expérienceposited and will subordinate its conceptionposited of logicposited and of

intelligibilitydial/posited to the givens2neg revealedlived by its investigationsok.

(CDRp. 20, Fr. 139) Bachelard has shown clearly how modern physics is in

itself a new rationalismposited: the only affirmationI which could be implied

through the praxis of the sciences of Natureposited/1neg is that of unity

conceived as the perpetual unification of increasingly reallived diversity.

But this affirmationI depends on humanlived activityI rather than on the

diversity of phenomenalived. Moreover, it is neither a knowledge

[connaissance]lived, nor a postulate, nor a Kantian a priori. It is the same

actionI which affirmsI itself within the undertaking, in the illumination of

the field and the unification of the means by the end (or of the sum of

experimental results by the idea of the experiment). [continued-1 back-1]

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See Sartre\Intelligibility of History-Inadequacy of Analytical Study [ignorance & scarcity are left out]

Sartre\Language&Comprehension-RComprehensionlived vs.

geometrical proofI (CDR 61-4)

Ref Herein-Analytical_Reasonposited/1neg as synthetic transformation of its

lived dialectic precursor

**2 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-HISTORICAL_MATERIALISMposited; cf.

realistic_materialism; Hazel Barnes "Introduction," Search for a Method

(p. xxixc) "...dialectical_materialismc (which means a historical

materialism viewed dialectically)..."

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***4 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-RATIONALITYdial/lived or posited; See

analytical_rationalityposited; see rationalitylived below.

BN: (p. 460c) "...Every project is comprehensiblelivedok as a

projectI of itself toward a possiblelived. It is comprehensibleIok first in so far

as it offers a rationaldial/posited content which is immediately graspable

[transformslivedtoposited]—I place my knapsack on the groundlived in order to rest

for an instantposited..."

Search for a Method: (p. 111c, Fr. 89) "...The dialecticalpositedc

knowing [connaissance]lived of man, according to Hegel and Marx, demands a

new rationalitydial/posited. Because nobody has been willing to establish this

rationalityI within expérienceposited, I state as a factposited—absolutely no one,

either in the East or in the West, writes or speaks a sentence or a word

about us and our contemporaries that is not a gross error."

CDR: (p. 19c, Fr. 139, above) "...praxis does not, even

dogmatically, affirmdial the absoluteontology rationalitydial/posited of the reallived, if

this means that realitylived obeys a definite system of a priori principlesposited

and lawsontology...";

(p. 34c) "...the dialecticposited as rationalityposited must

discoverdial/livedc itself in everyday expérienceposited, at once [à la fois] as the

objectivelivedc joiningok between factsposited and as the methodposited for

knowing [connaître]posited and fixing this joiningIok..."

(p. 266c) "...And just as there is a logicposited of the practico-

inertI layer, there are also structuresdial/posited proper to the thoughtposited which

is produced at this social level of activityI; in other words, there is a

rationalityposited of the theoretical and practical behaviour of an agent as a

member of a serieslived...";

rationalitylived

"On The Idiot of the Family," (p. 41-2c) "...L’Etre et Le Néant is a

monument of rationality. (p. 42) But in the end it becomes an

irrationalismI , because it cannot account rationallyposited for those processes

which are ‘below’ consciousness and which are also rationallived, but lived

as irrational..."

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Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-ANALYTIC_SCHEMATIZERposited [schématiser,

schéma]; [analytic_schematizer]: cf. dialectic_schematizerlived

BN (p. 484c, Fr. 529) "...The intentionc can no more be separated from

the actlived than thoughtlived can be separated from the languagelived which

expresses it; and as it happens that our speech informs us of our

thoughtlived, so our actsI will inform us of our intentionsI—that is, it will

enable us to disengage our intentionsI, to analytically_schematizeposited, and

to make objectsposited of them instead of limiting us to living them...";

(p. 518c) "Afterwards, it will be permissible to discoverdial/lived

abstractlived operationalc analytic_schemataposited which will be depicted as

the legalontologyc truth of the sentencelived: the dialectic_schemalivedc—the

schemaI of the national language—the linguistic schemaI in general. But

these schemasI, far from pre-existing the concretelived sentenceI are affected

in themselves with Unselbstāndigkeit [see selbstāndig] and existsI always

only incarnated and sustained in their very incarnationI by a freedomBN."

Search for a Method: See sub-topic below;

(p. 25c) "Of course, the physicist’s hypothesis, before being

confirmed by experimentation, is also a deciphering of the expérienceposited;

it rejects the empiricism simply because it is mute. But the

constitutiveCDRdial/group analytic_schemeposited of this hypothesis is

universalizing, it is not totalizingontologyc. It determines [‘that is, as limitation’] a

connectionok [of three degrees]posited&posited, a functionpositedc, and not a

concrete_totalitydial/lived.

CDRII (p. 8c) A certain analytic_schematizationposited—e...—is enough

to transform the comprehensivelived study of the battle into a formalposited

theory, into a quasi-mathematical calculus of possibleslived. The realitylived

of the conflict fades—ultimately we find a calculus of

probabilitiespositede...";

4-15Dial Dialectic_schematizerlived (index) Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-DIALECTIC_SCHEMATIZERlived [schématiser] as

verballived; See lived below, The Family Idiot: (1:11c, Fr. 21); cf.

analytic_schematizerposited; all French terms checked.

CDR: (p. 57c) "...secondary intelligibilitydial/posited, however, is not the

transluciditydial of dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg: it is the intelligibilityI of


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partial momentsdial of the totalizationI favoring the

totalization_itself_in_its_temporalizationlived, that is to say, through the

criticalposited application of dialectic_schémeslived...";

(p. 91c, Fr. 204) "e...even if we accept the molecular theories of

analytical_rationalityposited, the dialectic is already present, even at the

highest level of abstractionlived in the elementary but complete form of a

lawontologyc of development and a dialectic_schematizerlived of

intelligibilitydial/livedc.

(p. 112c) "...In other words, manlived as the future [avenir]lived of

manI is the regulative dialectic_schemalived of every undertaking, but the

endlived is always a remolding of the material order which by itself will

make manI possiblelived..."

CDRII: (p. 33-4c) "... I recall for my own part having perceivedlived—

rightly or wrongly, it is of little consequence—heaven knows what Cuban

savagery in the cockfights of Havana. Those cocks epitomized menlived.

Conversely, after the fights, the blind violence of those humanized

creatures became a grid, a syntheticdial dialectic_schemalived through

which—despite myselflived—I decoded everything I saw. (p. 34) A kind of

formless tragedy, floating between my eyes and the city, causedI [faisait]

melived to discoverdial/lived the poverty, although the directposited link between it

and fights between animals was not apparent to me at all...";

The Family Idiot: (1:11c, Fr. 21) "... First, the languagelived of the

speaker generally dissolves at_once in the mind of the listener; what

remains [in the listener] are analytic_schemesposited and dialectic_schemeslived,

respectively conceptualposited and verballived, that control

reconstitutionCDRdial/group and comprehensionlivedok..."

(5:203c, [dialectic_schematizerlived vs analytic_schematizerposited]) "...The

main thing is that these differential relationslived&positedok, meaningfulCDR only

in relationI [n’ayant] to each other, continually reverberate from one

schemeI to the other [dialectic_schematizerlived vs analytic_schematizerposited] and

from each of them to the totalizedposited wholedial, so that thoughtposited, once

caught in these grids—though surpassing1neg them each time toward a

concretelivedc creation—has no way out..."


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7-15Dial Dialectic ‘is a methodposited and a movementlived in the

object’ (CDR20)

Sartre, CDR (p. 20, Fr. 139, continuing-1 back-1) "Scientific research in

fact is not necessarilyCDRdial conscious of its principal characters. On the

contrary dialecticallived knowledge [connaissance]lived is in fact knowledge

[connaissance]lived of the dialecticlived. For science, there is not any formalpositedc

structureI , nor any implicit [negation1 of negation2 which becomes] affirmationR

about the rationalityc of the Universe: which comes back to [science to] say

that Reasonposited/1negc is developing [est en cours], and the mind prejudges

nothing. To the complete contrary, the dialectic is a methoddial/posited**1 and

a movementdial/lived***2 in the objectposited/lived. For the dialectician, the

affirmationI at the base of our concern is at once [à la fois] the

structuredial/posited of the realposited and that [structuredial/lived] of our praxislived. We

affirm all together, that the processes of knowledge [connaissance]posited & lived is

of the dialecticalposited order, that the movementdial/livedc of the object

(whatever it may be) is itself dialecticallived, and that these two

dialecticsposited&lived are one and the same. This ensemblelived of propositions

have a material content; they themselves are a form of organized

knowledges [connaissances]posited & lived, or, to put it differently, they defineI a

rationalityposited of the worldlived.

(CDRp. 20-1, Fr. 140) "The modern scientist sees Reasonposited/1neg as

independent of any particularI rational system. For him, ReasonI is the

mind as an empty unifier. The dialectician, on the other hand, locates

himself within a system****: he definesI a Reasonposited/1neg, and he rejects a

priori the purely analytical_Reasonposited/1neg of the seventeenth century, or

rather he integrates it [analytical_Reason] as the first momentdial/posited of a

syntheticdial, progressive Reasonposited. It is impossible to see this as a kind

of affirmationdial in the actlived of our detachment; and equally impossible to

make of it a postulate, or a working hypothesis.

Dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg*****a surpasses1neg the framework of

methodologyposited; it states what a sector of the Universe, or, perhaps what

the entire Universe is. It does not merely directposited research or even pre-

judge the mode of apparitionlivedok of objectsI. Dialectical Reasonposited/1neg

legislates [lawontologyc], it defines what the worldI (human or total) must be

like for dialecticallived knowledge [connaissance]lived to be possibleI ; it


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ellucidates at the same time the one [dialecticlived] through the other

[dialecticposited], the movementdial/lived of the reallived and that of our

thoughtsposited. This singular rationalposited system, however, is supposed to

surpass1neg and to integrate all models2neg of rationalityI. (CDRp. 21) Dialectic

Reasonposited is neither constituentlived nor constitutedCDR/dial/group

reasonlivedcok******

b it is Reasonposited/1neg constitutingI itself in and through

the worldlived, dissolving in itself all constituted_dialectical_Reasonposited/1negc

in order to constitutedial/group new ones which it surpasses1neg and dissolves in

turn. It is, therefore, at once [à la fois] a type of rationalityposited/formal and the

surpassing1neg of all types of rationalityposited. The certitude of always being

able to surpasslived/1neg the empty detachment of formalpositedc rationalityposited:

the always given2neg possibilitylived of unifying becomes the permanent

necessityCDRdial/lived for manlived of totalizing and being[-there]lived

totalizedposited******, and for the worldlived of being[-there]lived an ever

broader, ‘totalization [in course]lived.’ But knowledge [savoir]lived of such scope

would be a mere philosophical dream if it is not discovereddial/lived to us with

all the characters of apodicticposited evidencedial/lived. This signifies that

practical successes are not enough; even if the same affirmationsdial of the

dialecticianposited were indefinitely confirmed by research, this permanent

confirmation would not get us beyond empirical contingencyontology.

(CDRp. 21, Fr. 141) "So we must take up the whole problem once again,

and explore the limits, the validitydial/lived and the extent of dialectical

Reasonposited/1neg. And, so we said that this Critique (in the Kantian sense of

the term) of dialectical Reasonposited/1neg can be made only by dialectical

Reasonposited/1neg itself; and indeed it must be allowed to found itself and to

develop itself as a freeBN critique of itself, at the same time as the

movementdial/lived of Historyposited/1neg and of knowledge [connaissance]lived. This

is precisely what has not been done until now: dialectical Reasonposited/1neg

has been walled up in dogmatism."

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(CDRp. 35c) "...The possibilityI that a dialecticposited exists is itself

dialecticallived; or, to put it another way, the possibleI unity of the

dialecticposited as lawontologyc of historicallived development and the dialecticlived

as knowledge [connaissance]lived in movementdial/lived of this development is the

unity of a dialecticalI movementI..."


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Search for a Method, Preface (p. xxxivc) "...From Marxism, which

gave it a new birth, the ideology of existence inherits two exigencieslived

(from Hegelianism through MarxismI): if such a thing as a Truthposited/1neg

can exist in anthropology, it must be a Truthposited/1neg that has become, and

it must make itself a totalization [in course]lived. It goes without saying that

this double exigenceI definesI that movementdial/lived of Beingposited/1neg and of

knowing [connaissance]lived (or of comprehensionlivedFr=?) which since HegelI is

called ‘dialectic’e..."

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**1 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-METHODdial/posited

***2 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-MOVEMENTdial/lived [mouvement]; See CDR

(p. 57) and FI (5:81) below for exceptions.

BN (p. 23c, Fr. 58) "...by a double movementdial/lived of nihilationc, [1] he

nihilatesI the thing questionedlived/2neg in connectionc [rapport] [of three

degrees]lived&lived to himselflived/1neg by placing it in a neutral statelived, between

being[-there]lived/2neg and non-beinglived/1neg—and [2] he nihilatesI himselflived/1neg

in connectionlived&lived [rapport] [of three degrees] to the thing questionedlived/2neg by

wrenching himself from being[-there]lived/2neg in order to be able to bring out

of himselflived the possibilitylived of a non-beinglived/1neg..."

Search for a Method: (p. 92c) "...the projectI retains2neg and discloses

the surpassed1neg realitylived which is refused2neg by the very movementdial/lived

which surpasses1neg it..."

(p. 49c) "...the totalizingontology adventure produces itself as the

critical_expérienceposited of itself at a certain momentdial of its development.

And this critical_expérienceI grasps [transformslivedtolived] the singular

movementdial/lived through reflection [réflexion]lived, which means that it is the

singular momentI in which the actlived endows itself a reflexive [réflexive]lived

structuredial/lived....";

CDR: (p. 57c, as posited) "For if dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg exists, the

totalizingontology movementdial must, at least in principlepositedc, be

intelligibledial/posited to us everywhere and at all times..."

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-RI ‘enter myself in joiningI with

them: But in this way I change them in my changing,’ with CDR (p. 104c)

"...work projects onto matter the inanimate movementdial/lived of

convergence.";


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The Family Idiot: (5:81, Fr. 3:92) "b)... From this time on, the literary

option may be chosen against science and out of spite; in any case, it is

maintained and defined outside it. The movementdial/posited of

analytical_Reasonposited/1neg constructing its knowledge[savoir]lived can no

longer be the objectlived of literature..."

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**** See Sartre\Language&Comprehension-Action, ‘in the course of

its accomplishment, provides its own clarification: ‘The experimenter is

part of the experimental system’

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*****a Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-DIALECTICAL REASONposited [Raison];

Dialectical Reasonposited/1neg [capitalized]: CDR (p. 91c)

"...dialectical_Reasonlived, which derives its intelligibilitydial/posited from

totalitiesdial/lived, and which governs the connectionslived&lived [rapport] [of three

degrees] of wholeslived/2neg to their partslived/1negR and of totalitieslived/2neg to one

anotherlived/1neg in a process of increasing integration..."

(p. 504c) "...dialectical_Reasonposited sustains, controls, and

justifies all other forms of thoughtlived, because it explains them, puts them

in their proper place and integrates them as non-dialectical momentsdial

which, in it, regain a dialecticalI value.";

Herein-R2. Dialectical Reasonposited as Intelligibilitydial/posited;

-RTotalization in course as a developing activitylived;

-RDialectical ‘Reasonposited as absoluteontology intelligibilitydial/posited of the

irreducibly new’—and its example;

-RAnalytical Reasonposited as synthetic transformation of its

dialecticposited precursor;

-RDialectic contradiction results from structureddial materiality:

Contradiction subsequently becomes its own motivelived force;

Sartre\Political Scarcity-RAnalysis cannot explain the

metamorphoses of Spanish gold

Dialectical reasonlived [lower case]: one hit, CDRII (p. 15c) "...if the class

struggle is to be intelligibledial/lived to the historian’s [lived experience of]

dialectical reasonlivedok, one must be able to totalizelived/dial classesI in


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struggle—and this comes down to discoveringdial/lived the syntheticdial/lived

unity of a society riven through and through..."

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******b REASONlived [lower case, raison];

BN: (p. 251c) "...in my most deep self I must not find reasonslived for

believinglived in the otherI [in Hegel’s rationality], but the otherlived himselflived not

being[-there]lived melived..."

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****** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-totalized;

Hazel Barnes, Sartre & Flaubert: (p. 9c) "...With respect to one’s

own self, Sartre attributed the impossibility to the fact that a totalizingposited

consciousness cannot be simultaneously the consciousness

totalizedposited..."

CDR: Herein-R4. Critical Experience and totalization [in course];

-R6. The Problem of Stalinism [Anyone at all today may realizeontology the

critical experience of themselvesontology/1neg as part of the wholeontology/2neg of historical

totalization ... in their opposition to everything and everyone];

-RParticipation grasps bonds of interioritylived linked to culturelived;

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-RReciprocitylived, alienation, and

reification as not totalizingposited

The Family Idiot: (5:36c) "...in short, in the living [vivant] statelived, an

intuitivelived/dial, implicit and nonverballived knowledge [savoir]lived, a certain

directontology and totalizingposited yet wordless comprehensionlived of

contemporary manlived among menlived and in the worldlived, hence an

immediate grasp [transformslivedtolived] of the inhumanity of manlived and his

subhumanityI...";

Hazel Barnes, Sartre & Flaubert: (p. 9c) "...With respect to one’s

own self, Sartre attributed the impossibility to the fact that a totalizingposited

consciousness cannot be simultaneously the consciousness totalizedlived..."

11-13Dial Dialectical_circularitylived: Objectificationlived as manlived

actinglived on matter; objectivitylived as matter actingI on manI (CDR224, out

of sequence) Sartre, CDR (p. 224-5, Fr. 333, out of sequence from Sartre\Freedom-Man

‘who recognizes himself in his work completely and who also does not recognize himself in


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it at all’) sartre¶ "During the period of Spanish hegemony gold could be

reallived power for a person or a collectivity. And, in so far as a historicalI

agent is defined by his objectivelived realitylived, and therefore by his

objectificationlived; this precious metal became, for a givenI society, this

objectificationI itself; and objectifyinglived praxis came to be defined, in

turn by its use of gold, that is to say, by the distribution of wealth

(capitalization, the financing of enterprises, items of expenditure, etc.).

But at the same time [simultaneity in dialectical_circularity] that it is the mode of

exteriorizinglived interioritylived for such singular or collectivelived agents,

what gold represented for the agent was existence in total exterioritylived,

since its valuelived at such a particular point was decided by the ensemblelived

of Historyposited/1neg; and in this way, to the extent that a prince or merchant

realizedontology [as doubly ontological] hisontology/1neg objectiveontology/2neg realitylived, it

eluded him. But this exteriorityI refers back to material totalitiesdial/lived in

which every factposited acts at a distanceontology as in an organic wholelived (the

discoveryI of a mine, a massive influx of precious metals, the discoveryI of

a new technical process, etc.) (p. 225) In this way, the hemorrhage of

objectivelived realityI, which is emptied of its meaningCDR in the hands of the

agent, takes on a certain significationlived, when deciphered in terms of the

totalityI in course. The ruin of a particular Genoese merchant can be

interpreted to the interiorlived of his praxis, but in order for it to be

intelligibledial/lived it must also be seen as coming from outside as a result of

the accumulation of stocks of precious metals, etc., to the extent that the

Mediterranean is, as Braudel says, a materialI unity.

(CDRp. 225, Fr. 334) "Nothing allows us to affirm a priori why the

transformation of the result should be comprehendedlivedok by the agent:

everything depends upon the instruments_of_thoughtlived provided for him

by his period, class and historicallived circumstances. On the other hand, at

the degree of development of our actual knowledge [connaissance]lived, we can

affirm that this transformationI is always intelligibledial/posited, provided one

has the necessaryCDRdial instruments at one’s disposal, in other words, it

defines its own type of rationality. The point is to grasp [transformslivedtoposited]

the praxis and its result from two inseparable points of viewc: that of

objectification**lived (or of manlived actinglived on matter) and that of

objectivity***lived (or of worked_matterlived actingI on man). It is necessaryI

of%20History.wpd


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[faut] to graspI how the concretelived result of a practice [, i.e., deforestation] can,

in so far as it is a new factposited, introduce a universal modification in the

materialI quasi-totalityposited [objectivity, i.e., floods], and how it can receive

from this moving and inorganic totalitydial/lived a sort of passive modification

which makes it other than it is. The example of deforestation is very

clear..."

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See Herein-Dialecticposited ‘is a methodposited and a movementlived in the

object’

Ref Herein-Dialectic contradiction results from structured dial materiality:

Contradiction subsequently becomes its own motivelived force

Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-DIALECTICAL_CIRCULARITYlived; dialectical

lived experience in CDR p. 79c below;

Notebooks for an Ethics: (p. 121c) "...IFr=? am my character and my

work. Beginning from the situation that is not-me in relationlived&lived as

1st&2negFr=? to me, I have transformed it into me. But with the same stroke I

have alienated myselflived from myself. Hence mylived melived has become

not-me to the extent that the not-me becomes me."

BN: (p. 376P ) "Each one is alienatedc only to the exact extent to

which he demands the alienationI of the otherlivedc.";

CDR: (p. 79c) "...the crucial discoverydial/lived of dialectical

expérienceposited is that manlived is ‘mediatedlived’ by things to the same extent

as things are ‘mediated’I by man. This truthontology must be born in mind in

its entirety if we are to develop all of its consequences. This is what is

called dialectical_circularitylived.";

Sartre\Temporality-knower-known;

Sartre\Language&Comprehension-RAction, ‘in the course of

its accomplishment, provides its own clarification: ‘The experimenter is

part of the experimental system’;

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-RMarx's/Sartre's formalismposited:

Manlived mediates things to the extent that things mediate manlived

The Family Idiot: (2:3c) "...There are no outside [dehors] categories

being applied here to experiencec [vécu]; it is experienceI [vécu] itself that is

unified in a movementdial/lived of circularity with the means at hand—the


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affects and ideas that prompt one to interiorizationlived of objectivelived

structuresdial/lived..."

(2:14c) "...what factors affected [Flaubert] in the beginning with an

unreality that he was condemned to produce to the exact degree that he

submitted to it...";

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-OBJECTIFICATIONlived [objectivation], [man

acting on matter]; cf. objectivitylived [matter acting on man];

CDR: (p. 112c) "...objectificationlived as such is not the goal, but the

consequences attached to the goal...";

(p. 154c) "e...The motivationlivedok of reflection (reflexion)

[réflexion]lived consists in a double attempt, simultaneously an

objectificationlived and an interiorizationlived;

(p. 225c above) "...The point is to grasp [transformslivedtolived] the

praxis and its result from two inseparable points of viewc: that of

objectificationlived (or of manlived actinglived on matter) and that of

objectivitylived (or of worked_matterlived actingI on man)..."

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-REventslived ‘determine in each

case and on every level the connections [of three degrees]lived&lived of the

individuallived/1neg with societylived/2neg’

The Family Idiot: (5:286c) "...In a word, interioritylived is the

objectivizationlived of a man...";

(1:136c) "...his essential realitylived is objectificationlived...";

As revision of Hegel: Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-RFour conditions

of positive or negative reciprocitylived

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-OBJECTIVITYlived [objectivite]; [matter acting on

man]; cf. objectificationlived [man acting on matter];

BN: (p. 257c) "...my objectivitylived can not itself derive for melived from

the objectivitylived of the worldlived since I am precisely the one by whom

there is a worldlived; that is, the one who on principleposited can not be an

objectposited for himselflived."

CDR: (p. 225c above) "The point is to grasp [transformslivedtoposited] the

praxislived and its resultposited from two inseparable points of viewlived&livedc:


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that of objectificationlived (or of manlived actinglived on matter) and that of

objectivitylived (or of worked_matterlived actingI on man)..."

9-14Dial Objectivelived (index) ** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-OBJECTIVElived [objectif, -ive]; cf.

objectivitylived, objectificationlived;

BN: Sartre\Freedom-RCause, motivelived, actlived, and end as

simultaneous in a for-itself’slived transcendencelived/1neg;

Search for a Method: (p. 33, Ftn. 9c) "...The truthontology is that

subjectivitylived is neither everything nor nothing; it represents a momentdial

in the objectivelived process, that of interiorizationlived of exterioritylived, and

this momentI is perpetually eliminated only to be perpetually reborn...";

(p. 97c) "...Praxis, indeed, is a passage from objectivelived to

objectivelived through interiorizationlived. The projectlived, as the subjectivelived

surpassing1neg of objectivitylived toward objectivityI, and stretched between

the objectivelived conditions of the environment and the objectivelived

structuringdial/lived of the field of possibleslived, represents in itself the moving

unity of subjectivitylived and objectivitylived, those cardinal determinants of

activitylived...";

CDR: (p. 34c) "(1) The failure of dialecticalposited dogmatism has

shown that the dialecticposited as rationalitypositedc must discoverdial/livedc itself in

everyday expérienceposited, at once [à la fois] as the objectivelived joiningok

between factsposited and as the methodposited for knowing [connaître]lived and

fixing this joiningI..."

"The Itinerary of a Thought," (p. 35c, 1969) "...I might still use the

term ‘objectivitylived’, I suppose, but only to emphasize that everything is

objectivelived. The individuallived interiorizeslivedc his social determinations

[‘that is, as limitation’]: he interiorizesI the relationslived&lived as 1st&2negFr=? of

production, the family of his childhood, the historicallived past, the

contemporary institutions, and he then re-exteriorizeslived these in actslived

and options which necessarilyCDRdial refer back to themI..."

"Self-Portrait at Seventy" (p. 8c, 1975) "The kind of sentence that is

purely objectivelived, like those found frequently in Stendhal,

necessarilyCDRdial leaves out many things. Yet this sentence contains

within itself all the others, and thus holds a totalitydial/lived of meaningsCDRlived


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that the author must have constantly in mind for them all to emerge...

While when Stendhal writes, ‘As long as he could see the clock tower of

Verrières, Julien kept turning around,’ the sentenceI, by simply saying

what the character does, also tells us what Julien feels, what Mme de

Renal feels, and so on."

Pages 21-2 out of sequence at Sartre\Phenomenology-3. Hegelian Dogmatism

11-13Dial 4. The Dialecticposited of MarxI (CDR23) Sartre, CDR (p. 23, Fr. 142) "MarxR originality is to irrefutable

establish against Hegel, that Historyposited/1neg is in development, that being[-

there]lived is irreducible to Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg** and, all at once [à la

fois], he preserved the dialecticalposited movementlived in Beingposited/1neg and in

Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg. He was correct, practically. But having failed

to re-think the dialecticI, MarxistsI have playedI the Positivists gamee...

[Positivism]I does not regard the synthesisI of all knowledges

[connaissances]lived as completely impossible (though it envisages it as an

inventory rather than as an organization of Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg): but

it considers such a synthesisI impossible now. It is necessaryI [faut] to

establish against positivismI, how, dialectical_Reasonposited can assert today,

most_certainly, all the Truthposited/1neg, if not some totalizingposited truthslived." [continued-2] -------------------------------------------------

Sartre, Search for a Method (p. 25-7P, Fr. 33) sartre¶ "Now there can be

no doubt that the fruitfulness of livingI MarxismI stemmed in part from its

way of approaching expérienceposited. MarxI was convinced that

factsposited***c are never isolated apparitionsFr=?, that if factsposited produce

themselves as an ensemblelived, a factposited [one fact cannot be isolated] is always

within the higher unity of a wholelived, that factsposited are bound to each

other by internal_connectionsdial/livedcok [of interior structures of consciousness], and

that the presence of one [factposited] profoundly modifies the natureposited of the

others. Consequently, MarxI approached the study of the revolution of

February 1848 or Louis Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’état with a

syntheticdial intent; he [Marx] saw in these break ups totalitiesdial/lived

produced and at once [à la fois] split apart by their internalok contradictions.


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Of course, the physicist’s hypothesis, before being confirmed by

experimentation, is also a deciphering of the expérienceposited; it rejects the

empiricism simply because it is mute. But the constitutiveI

analytic_schemepositedc of this hypothesis is universalizingposited, it is not

totalizingposited. It determinesdial [‘that is, as limitation’] a connectionok [of three

degrees]posited&posited, a functionpositedc, and not a concrete_totalitydial/lived. The

MarxistI approaches the historicalI process with universalizing and

totalizingontology schemata. And, of course, the totalizingontology was not made

by chance. The theory had determinedI the choiceI of the perspective and

the order of the conditioning factors; it studied each particular process

within the framework of a general system in evolution. But in no case, in

Marx’sI own work, does this putting in perspective claim to prevent or to

render useless the appreciation of the process as a singular totalitydial/lived.

When, for example, he studies the brief and tragic historylived of the

Republic of 1848, he does not limit himself—as would be done today—to

stating that the republican petite bourgeoisie betrayed its ally, the

Proletariat. On the contrary, he tries to account for this tragedy in its

detail and in the ensemblelived. If he subordinates anecdotal factsposited to the

totalityI (of a movementdial/lived, of an attitude), he also seeks to

discoverdial/lived the totalitydial/lived by means of the factsposited. (SMp. 26, Fr. 33) In

other words, he gives to each eventlived, in addition to its particular

significationlived, the role of beinglived revealinglived. Since the principleposited

which presides over the inquiry is the search for the syntheticdial ensembleI,

each factposited, once established, is deciphered and interrogated as part of a

wholedial. It is on the basis of each factposited, through the study of its lacksc

and its ‘over significationsI,’ that one determines [‘that is, as limitation’], by

virtue of a hypothesis, the totalitydial/lived at the heart of which the factposited

will recover its truthlivedc. Thus livinglived MarxismI is heuristic; its

principlesposited and its prior knowledge [savoir]lived appearI as regulativelived/2neg

in connectionlived&lived [rapport] [of three degrees]lived&lived to its concretelived/1neg

research. In the work of MarxI we never find entities. Totalitiesdial/lived (e...)

are livinglived; they furnish their own definitions within the framework of

the research. Otherwise we could not comprehendFr=? the importance

which MarxistsI attach (even/ today) to ‘the analysis’ of a situation. (SMp.

27, Fr. 34) It goes without saying that this analysis is not enough and that it


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is but the first momentdial in an effort at syntheticdial reconstruction. But it

appearsI also that the analysis is indispensable to the later reconstruction

of the ensembleslived."

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** Claimed by Kierkegaardc [1813-1855], before being claimed by Marx

[1818-1883], and both before Nietzschec [1844-1900] who expanded the claim

throughout his work. The most significant philosophical move since

Plato. Well! there is also ‘the otherlived.’

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-FACTposited [fait, also ‘he ... makes’]; cf.

factual_necessityontology, facticitylived; necessityCDRdial.

The Transcendence of the Ego: (p. 35c) "...Phenomenologyposited is a

scientific, not a criticallivedc, study of consciousness. Its essential way of

proceeding is by intuitionlived. IntuitionI , according to Husserlc, puts us in

the presenceI of the thinglived. We must recognize, therefore, that

phenomenologyc is a science of factposited, and that the problems it poses are

problems of factposited; which can be seen, moreover, from Husserl’sI

designation of phenomenologyI as a descriptive science...";

The Emotions: (p. 9-10c) "...HusserlI, was struck by this truthlived:

essenceslived and factsposited are incommensurable, and one who begins his

inquiry with factsposited will never arrive at essenceslivedc... (p. 10) However,

without giving up the idea of experienceFr=? (the principleposited of

phenomenologyI is to go to ‘things themselves’ and the basis of these

methodsposited is eidetic intuitionlived) ... it must even recognize that

essenceslivedc alone permit us to classify and inspect the factsposited.";

(p. 16c, Fr. 16) "e...For the phenomenologiste... every human

factposited is, in essencelivedc, significativelived. If you remove the

significationlived, you remove its naturelived as humanI factposited...";

BN: (p. 11c) "...Here is an original judgment, a concretelived, positive

psychic**a actposited which establishes a factposited: ‘There are 1300 francs in

my wallet’e... ‘I expected to find 1500 francs.’ There we have reallived and

established factposited, psychic positive eventslived, affirmativedial judgments.

Where are we to place negation?...";


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(p. 282c, Fr. 322) "...The Cartesian cogitolived only makes an

affirmationdial of the absoluteontology truthlived of a factposited—that of my

existence...";

Sartre\Language&Comprehension-RAbsolute ‘concretelived

realitylived [as] the primary phenomenonlived [of] pure factposited’ (BN 514-19);

-RThere ‘can be no lawsontology of speech before one speakslived,

with BN (p. 517c) "...Thus we can grasp [transformslivedtolived] the clear

difference between the eventlived ‘sentencelived’ and a naturallivedc eventlived.

The factposited of natureposited is produced in conformity to a lawontology which it

manifests but which is a purely exterior rulelived of production of which the

considered factposited is only one example...";

Notebooks for an Ethics: (p. 97c) "No one can define what is

necessaryBNontology ontologicallyontology: the connection [of three

degrees]ontology&ontologycFr=? of A to B is said to be necessaryBNI if, Aontology/2neg

being[-there] given2neg, Bontology/1neg follows. But clearly, here again, we have

to thinklived of a subjectivitylived that prevents B from following and that is

finally conquered, otherwise succession A B appearsFr=? as a factualposited

one, as Hume showed in his analysis of causality. NecessityBNontology exists

only for a subjectivityI and once again it must be added that to the extent

that subjectivityI itself brings about the necessaryBNontology connectionsI, [of A

to B above] it invents its operations..."

CDR: (p. 28, Ftn. 12c) "...Concealed, [the dialectic]posited directsposited the

collection of factsposited; then it discoversdial/lived itselflived by making them

comprehensiblelived, by totalizingontologyc them. This comprehensionI

revealslived a new dimension of Historyposited/1neg and finally, its truthlived, its

intelligibilitydial/lived...";

(p. 34c) "...(1)...the dialecticposited as rationalityposited must be open

to direct, everyday expérienceposited, at once [à la fois] as the objectivelivedc

joiningok between factsposited and as the methodposited for knowing [connaître]lived

and fixing this joiningIok...";

(p. 58c) "Within the totalization [in course] where we are and

which we are, however, dialectical_Reasonposited must prove its constant

superiority for the intelligenceok of historicalpositedc factsposited: it must

dissolve the positivistI, analyticalposited interpretation from within its own

totalizingposited activity; it must reveallived certain structuresdial/posited,


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connectionslived&lived as 1st&2neg [rapport] [of three degrees] and

meaningsCDRlived/1neg&2neg which necessarilyCDRdial/lived elude all positivismI...";

Nietzsche\Knowledge-There are no facts, only interpretations

11-13Dial 5. ThoughtI , BeingI , and TruthI in MarxismI (CDR24) Sartre, CDR (p. 24, Fr. 143, continuing-2) "But that is not all. For

Hegelc, as we have seen, the apodicticityposited of dialecticalposited knowledge

[connaissance]lived implied the identity [logical] of Beingposited/1negc, Actionposited/1neg,

and Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg. MarxRc, however, began by positing that

material existence was irreducible to knowledge [connaissance]lived, that

praxis outstrips Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg in its reallived efficacy. Needless

to say, this is my own position. However, this position gives rise to new

difficulties: how can we establish that one and the same movementdial/lived

animates these different processes [praxis outstrips Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg].

In particular, thoughtpositedR is all at once [à la fois] Beingposited/1neg and the

knowledge [connaissance]lived of Beingposited/1neg**. It is the praxis of an

individuallived or a grouplived, in determined [‘that is, as limitation’] conditions, at

a definite momentdial of Historyposited/1neg. As such thoughtlived is subject to

the dialecticposited as its lawontology, just like the historicallived process,

considered either as the ensemblelived or in its details. But thoughtlived is

also knowledge [connaissance]lived of the dialectic_as_Reasonposited/1neg, that is,

as a lawI of Beingposited/1neg. But this presupposes a clarifying

detachmentlived/1neg in connectionok [of three degrees]lived&lived to the dialectic

objectslived/2neg, permitting us to disclose their movementdial/lived. Is there not

an unsurpassable1neg contradiction between the knowledge [connaissance]lived

of Beingposited/1neg and the being of knowledge [connaissance]lived? The

demonstration that thoughtlived as being[-there]I [qu’être], is carried along in

the same movementI as the wholedial of Historyposited/1neg, does not dissolve

all contradictionsI. In fact it is precisely to this extent that thoughtlived is

incapable of attaining itself in the necessityCDRdial of its own dialectical

development."

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** See for three degrees in this sentence, Herein-Analytical Reasonposited/1neg

as synthetic transformation of its dialecticposited precursor, with CDR (p.

58c) "...In this respect, as we shall see in detail later, thoughtlived, when it


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makes itself into directed inertia in order to actposited on inertiaI, conforms to

the rulelivedR of the practical_organismc at every level..."

Pages 24-5 continued out of sequence at Sartre\Phenomenology-3. Hegelian

Dogmatism

11-13Dial Marx’s/Sartre’s materialisticI ‘monismI as a dualismI ... is ...

[both] at once’ (CDR25) Sartre, CDR (p. 25, Fr. 144, my paragraph break) sartre¶For even if it were

trueontology that Historyposited/1neg clarifies itself when considered

dialecticallyposited, the example of the Positivists** shows that this can be

regarded as mere determinism. For this reasonI , one must already be

situated within constituent_dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg in order to see

HistoryI as constituted_dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg. But if

dialectical_Reason creates itself (rather than suffering itself), how can one

prove that it corresponds to the dialecticposited of Beingposited/1neg, without

relapsing into idealism? This old problem recurs whenever traditional

dogmatic dualism is revived. No doubt it will seem surprising that I refer

to MarxistR monismR as a dualismI; it is, in fact, monist and dualistI at

once [à la fois].

"It is dualistI because it is monist. MarxI ontological monismI

consisted in affirming the irreducibility of Beingposited/1negok to thoughtlived,

and, in reintegrating on the contrary the thoughtslived with the reallived as a

certain form of [monisticI] human activitylived. But this monisticI

affirmationdial gives itself as dogmatic Truthposited/1neg. But we must

distinguish it from conservative ideologies which are mere products of the

universal_dialecticlivedc: in this way thoughtlived as the vehicle of truthontology

can recover what it has lost ontologicallyI since the collapse of idealismI,

and become a Normposited/1neg of Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg."

(CDRp. 26, Fr. 145) "e...Materialist monismI, in short, has successfully

eliminated the dualismIRc of thoughtlived and Beingposited/1neg in favor of total

BeingI, which is thereby grasped [transformslivedtoposited] in its materialityI. But

the effect of this has only been to re-establish, as an antonymy—at least an

apparent one—the dualismI of Beingposited/1neg and Truthposited/1neg." [continued-3]

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(CDRp. 180-1, Fr. 290, Out of sequence from Sartre\Political Scarcity-

Worked_‘matter as the motivelived force of history’) "...If we were not wholly matter,

how could we actlived on matterI, and how could it actI on us? If manlived

were not a specific entity which lives its condition in totalizingontology

transcendencelived/1neg, how could there be a materialI worldlived? How could

we conceive of the general possibilitylived of any activityI whatever? We

always experience [éprouvons]ontology materialI realitylived as a threat to our

lives, as resistance to our labour... In bothok cases weI this passive force

within a process of signifyinglived unification. Matter eludes us precisely to

the extent that it is given to us and in us. The universe of science is a strict

chain of significationsI. These significationsI are produced by practice and

return in order to illuminate it but each of them gives itself provisionally;

even if it is still in the system tomorrow, the permanent possibilityI of the

overthrow*** of the ensemblelived will modify it. The monismI which

starts from the human world and situates manI in Natureposited/1neg is the

monismI of materialityI. (CDRp. 181, Fr. 291) This is the only monismI which

is realist, and which removes the purely theological temptation to

contemplate Natureposited/1neg ‘without alien addition’. It is the only

monismIc which makes manI neither a molecular dispersal nor a being[-

there]lived apart, the only one which starts by defining him by his praxis in

the general milieu of animalc life, and which can transcendlived/1neg the

following two trueontology but contradictory propositions****: all existence

in the universe is materialontology; everything in the worldlived of manI is

humanontology."

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See Herein-8. Critique of the External Dialecticposited; -Fredric Jameson:

‘Worked_matter’ founds Sartre’s dualism of ‘man mediates things to the

extent that things mediate man’

** The positivists arguments on page CDR 23 are commonplace and were

not cited.

*** As, for example, Carl Popper’s theory that scientific truth’s notability

is its necessity of being replaced.

**** Copied and see Sartre\Negation-First contradiction: Interioritylived

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11-13Dial Fredric Jameson: Worked_matter founds Sartre’s dualismI

of ‘manlived mediateslived thingsI to the extent that things mediate man’ Fredric Jameson, Foreword to 2004 ed., Critique of Dialectical

Reason, Volume One, published by Verso in 1991. CDR (p. xxii) "For

what totalization or praxis produces is one form or another of

‘worked_matterlived’**, what Hegel would have called objectification in the

outside world, and as it were an inert and alienated trace of my completed

act. And with this the dialectic begins, and the fundamental

dualism*** of all of Sartre’s philosophy rears its head, namely the radical

differentiation between people and things, between my consciousness, my

alienation in matter, and my alienation by other people. This, which was

the tripartite organizing principle of Being and Nothingness, must not be

confused with the dualism, of the pour-soi and the en-soi, to which

Merleau-Ponty objected, in his own effort to restore a phenomenological

monism by way of the corps propre [their own body]..."

(p. xxiii) "But these methodological considerations do not yet specify

the concrete and fundamental dualism at work in the Critique, which can

be understood as constituting a commentary on Mark’s famous remark:

‘Men make their own history, but not under conditions of their own

choosing’" (p. xxiv) "e...what is negative in counterfinality is not the result

of matter as such, but rather of the human productivity or praxis invested

in it, and returning in unrecognized form upon the human being who

invested their labor in it in the first place. Sartre will also call the bearer

of this new, and active, malign power ‘worked_matterlived’ (matiére

ouvrée) and it can be distinguished from human ‘totalization in course’ as

being very precisely an already ‘totalized_totality’. This is thus the place

of the various historical forms Marx calls modes of production, and it is

the concomitant of a specific form of human sociality Sartre will call ‘the

collective’ (among which is included the Marxian phenomenon of social

class)..."

(p. xxv) "...The non-human world must for Marx be distinguished

from a material invested by ‘stored labor’: such material objects become

‘masses of crystallized labor-time’, their raw material ‘soaked in labor’.

Machinery now dialectically transforms this process of investment on a

higher level, adding value to its product which is distinct from but


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compounded with the immediate human labor also involved. This is

because the machine stores up the labor which has gone into its own

production and then reinvests it in its new product: ‘Only in large-scale

industry has man succeeded in making the product of his past labor, labor

which has already been objectified, perform gratuitous service on a large

scale, like a force of nature."

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See Herein-Marx’s/Sartre’s materialistic ‘monism as a dualism ... is [both]

at once’

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-WORKED_MATTERlived; cf. practico-

inert_matter; the term ‘totalized_totality’ is hyperlinked as

worked_matterlived; cf. Herein-matter

CDR: (p. 112c, as quasi-totality]) And this quasi-totality, as we know

[connaissons]lived, exists in the form of worked_matterlived in so far as it

mediateslived between menlived..."

(p. 224c) "NecessityCDRdial revealslived itself in expérienceposited

when we are robbed of our actionlived by worked_matterlived, not in so far as

it is pure materiality but in so far as it is materializedI praxis. In this

momentdial, the toolok made by an Otherposited/1negok represents an element of

exterioritylived... ExteriorityI exists to the extent that the toolok as materialityI

is part of other fields of interioritylived...";

Sartre\Political Scarcity-2. Worked_Matterlived as Alienated

Objectificationlived of Individuallived and collective praxislived; -RWorked_‘matter as the motivelived force of history’

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-DUALISM/DUALITY, DYAD; [dualisme/dualité,

dyad; not double; Dual has no French equivalent]; cf. All hits of dual and dyad

checked in French; See Dyad, below; cf. couple

BN: Sartre\Phenomenology-RBN phenomenologyposited converts

dualisms of interior/exterior, beinglived/appearancelived, and potency/act to

that of the ‘infinite in the finite’;

(BNp. 301c, Fr. 340) Of course where we directed our sight, we

encountered as the object of our description only a pure and simple

negation of interioritylived. Yet it is there in the irreducible factposited that

there is a duality of negationsI. It is not, to be sure, the foundation of the


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multiplicity of consciousnesses, for if it existed before this multiplicity, it

would make all being-for otherslived impossible..."

CDR: (p. 26c) "...MaterialistI monism, in short, has successfully

eliminated the dualism of thoughtlived and Beingposited/1neg [p. 35 below] in favor

of total BeingI, which is thereby grasped [transformslivedtoposited] in its

materialityI. But the effect of this has only been to re-establish, as an

antinomy—at least an apparent one—the dualism of Beingok and

Truthposited/1neg."

(p. 35c, out of sequence from Herein-Dialectical joiningIs cannot be

confirmed at the center of inanimate Natureposited/1neg) [The rejected ‘dualism of and Being’,

above CDR p. 26] "(2) We have noticed the aporias of Beingposited/1negc and of

Knowing [Connaître]posited/1neg in Marx. It is clear that the former is

irreducible to the latter. On the other hand the [Marxist] ‘dialecticposited of

Natureposited/1neg’ has shown us that Knowing [Connaître]posited/1neg vanishes

when reduced to one modalityc of Beingposited/1neg among others.

Nevertheless, this dualism, which threatens to lead us into some form of

disguised spiritualism, must be rejected..."

Herein-Rmonism;

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-RMarx's/Sartre's formalismposited:

Manlived mediates things to the extent that things mediate manlived

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dyad/fr. dyade:

CDR: (p. 115c, Fr. 227) "...the unity of a dyad can be

realizedontology/1neg&2neg [as doubly ontological] only with a totalizationI performed

from outside by a thirdI...";

(p. 119P , ce) "...the third as mediatorI is a syntheticdial

power and the bond between him and the dyad is unreciprocallived."

CDRII (p. 8c, Fr. 17) "But in addition, even in this positivist

treatment of the question (anyway indispensable from the practical point

of viewI), the dyad resides in an abstractlived form..."

11-13Dial 6. The ExternalI Dialecticposited in Modern MarxismI (CDR26) Sartre, CDR (p. 26, Fr. 145, continuing-3) "This difficulty, is

insurmountable to the Marxistse critique of Marxism... The dialecticposited of

Natureposited/1neg is NatureI without menlived. There is therefore no more need


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for certainty, for criteria; even the attempt to criticize and establish

Knowledge [Connaissance]posited/1neg becomes useless. Knowledge

[Connaissance]I of whatever form is a connectionok [of three degrees]lived&lived

between manlived/1neg and the worldlived/2neg around him, and if manI no longer

exists this connectionIok disappears [disparaît].

(CDRp. 26-7, Fr. 145) "The source of this unfortunate approach is

well known [connait]lived: as Whitehead said, a law begins by being a

hypothesis and ends by becoming a factposited. When we say that the earth

revolves, we no longer feel that we are stating a theory, or that we are

relying on a system of knowledges [connaissances]lived; we feel that we are in

the presence of the factposited itself, which immediately eliminates us as

knowing [connaissante]lived subjects in order to restore to us our ‘natureposited’

as objects of gravitation. For anyone with a realist view of the worldI,

knowledge [connaissance]lived therefore destroys itself in order to take up the

world, and this is truelived not only of philosophy but also of all scientific

knowledge [savoir]posited. When dialectical_materialismposited** claims to

establish a dialecticposited of Natureposited/1neg it does not presentI itself as an

attempt at an extremely general synthesisI of human knowledges

[connaissances]lived, but rather as a mere ordering of the factsposited. And its

claim to be concerned with factsI is not unjustified: when Engels speaks of

the expansion of bodies or of electric current, he is indeed referring to the

factsposited themselves—although these factsI may undergo essential changes

with the progress of science. (CDRp. 27, Fr. 146) This gigantic—and, as we

shall see, abortive—attempt to allow the worldlived to disclose itself by

itself and to no one: the dialectical_materialismposited on the outside of

transcendencelived/1neg."

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Ref Sartre\Heidegger&Sartre-Heidegger’s and behaviorists’

manufactured object, with traces of transcendence-transcendedlived/2neg,

refers to otherslived

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-DIALECTICAL_MATERIALISMposited is

Marxist; cf. Sartrean realistic materialism;

CDRII: Sartre\Intelligibility of History-RUnity of Struggle as an

Eventlived: [If ‘the plurality of epicenters are two opposed intelligibilities how could there

be one dialectic intelligibility of the ongoing process?’]

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1-15Dial 7. The [Marx’s] Dialecticposited of Natureposited/1neg (CDR27)

Sartre, CDR (p. 27, Fr. 146) "It is clear that this kind of materialismI is

not MarxistR, but still it is defined by MarxI: ‘The materialist

conceptionposited of the worldI signifieslived simply the conceptionI of

Natureposited/1neg just as it is, without alien addition’. On this conceptionI,

manI returns to the very heart of NatureI as one of its objects and develops

before our eyes in accordance with the lawsontology of NatureI, that is, as pure

materialityI governed by the universal lawsI of the dialecticposited. The

objectI of thoughtlived is Natureposited/1neg as it is, the study of Historyposited/1negc

being one specification: we must trace the movementdial/lived that produces

life out of matter, manI out of primitive forms of life, and social historylived

out of the first human communities. The advantage of [Marx’s] conceptionI

is that it avoids the problem: it presents the dialecticposited, a priori and

without justification, as the fundamental lawontology of Natureposited/1neg. This

materialismI of the exteriorI lays down the dialectic as exteriorityI : the

NatureI of man lies outside him in an a priori lawI, in an extra-

human_natureposited, in a Historyposited/1neg that begins with the nebulae. For

this universal_dialecticlived**, partial totalizations [in course] do not have

even provisional value; they do not exist. Everything must always refer to

the totalitydial/lived of naturalposited Historyposited/1negc of which humanI historylived

is one specification e..."

(CDRp. 29, Fr. 148) "We know [savons]posited, in factposited, that the idea of

dialecticposited emerged in Historyposited/1neg along quite different paths, and

that Hegel as well as MarxI disclosed and defined it in terms of the

relationslived&lived as 1st&2negok of manI to matter, and of menlived to each other.

The attempt to find the movementdial/lived of humanI historylived within

naturalpositedc historyI was made only later [by Engels et. al.], out of a wish for

unificatione..."

------------------------------------------------- CDRFtn. 12, Fr. 147) "These remarks apply, of course, only to the dialecticlived

conceived as an abstractlived and universal lawontology of Natureposited/1neg. We

will see, on the contrary, when the dialecticlived is applied to humanI

historylived, it conserves all of its heuristic value. Concealed, it presides in

the establishment of factspositedc; then it discloses itself by making them


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comprehensiblelived, by totalizingontology them. This comprehensionlived

revealslived a new dimension of Historyposited/1neg, and finally, its truthlived, its

intelligibilitydial/lived."

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-UNIVERSAL_DIALECTIClived; 2 hits with

CDR (p. 25c) "...We must distinguish it [dogmatic Truthposited/1neg] from

conservative ideologies which are mere products of the

universal_dialecticlived..."

11-13Dial 8. CritiqueI of the ExternalI Dialectic (CDR29) Sartre, CDR (p. 29, Fr. 148) "e...Languagelived is ambiguous in that

wordsc sometimes designate objects and sometimes conceptsposited; and this

is why materialism as such is not opposed to idealism. On the contrary,

there is a materialisticI idealism which, in the last analysis, is merely a

discourse on the idea of matter: its trueontology/posited? opposite is

realistic_materialism**—the thoughtlived of a human who is situated in the

worldlived, penetrated by every cosmic force, one which speaks of the

materialI universe as something which gradually revealslived itself through a

‘situatedI’ praxise... But the important point is this: if you are hunting for

the Truthposited/1negc (as a humanI undertaking) of the Universeposited/1neg, you

will find it, in the very words you use, as the object of an absoluteontology

and constitutingI consciousness. This means that it is impossible to get

away from the problem of Truthposited/1neg e..."

(CDRp. 30, Fr. 149) "e...empiricism’s lack of knowledge of the world In fact, our doctrinaires

[Marxists] have taken for the reallived grasp [transformslivedtoposited] of

NecessityokCDRposited/1neg a singular alienation, which presented to them their

own lived thinking as an object for a universal Consciousness, and which

submitted it to their own reflection [réflexion]lived as to the Thoughtposited/1neg of

the Otherposited/1neg."

Fredric Jameson, "Forward," Critique of Dialectical Reason (p. xv)

"...Sartre here takes on himself a preexisting alien language: that of

Engels’ three laws of the dialectic—the transformation of quantityc into

qualityc (and vice versa); the interpenetration of opposites; and the

negation1 of the negation2***..."

Hazel Barnes, "Sartre as Materialist," (p. 661) "...In Being and

Nothingness Sartre said that the metaphysicianR must decide whether to


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retain the ancient dualism of consciousness and being or to consider the

existent phenomenon as provided with two dimensions of being: ‘For

ontology it makes no difference whether we consider the for-itselflived

articulated in the in-itselflived as a well-marked duality or as a disintegrated

being. It is up to metaphysicsI to decide which will be more profitable for

knowledge (p. 794 [Page references to BN appear typos.]).’"

"In the Critique Sartre made his decision in favor of a materialistic

monism****. ‘The only monism which starts with the humanI world and

which situates menlived in Natureposited/1neg is the monism of materiality. It

alone is a realismc (p. 248).’"

(p. 662) "...We remember, too, Sartre's painstaking effort in his

‘Introduction’ to Being and Nothingness to demonstrate that his proposed

ontology avoids idealism and realismI, both of which he deems to be

inevitably in error. Later, in the Critique, he seems to take it for granted

than an acceptable philosophy must, in some way, be ‘a realismI’..."

(p. 663) "We must admit at the outset that many passages in Being

and Nothingness have an idealistI tinge. It is consciousness which

differentiates and gives significancelived to an otherwise meaningless being-

in-itselflived. Such phenomena as emergence and destruction exist solely

for a consciousness. That glittering entity in the sky is a quarter moon

only if a consciousness establishes that something of the entity is lacking...

But this is, of course, to look at only half the data. ‘Consciousness is born

supported by a being[-there]lived which is not consciousness (BN p. 23)’..."

Copied and see Sartre\Ontology-RealismI and idealismI of externallyI

united substancesI

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-REALISTIC MATERIALISM; 1 hit; cf.

historical_materialism

*** See Sartre\Negation-2. The simultaneous Negation1 of Negation2 (TE83-88) **** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-MONISMposited [materialistic]; See Herein-Rdualism; -1. Dialectical_Monismposited; -RMarx’s/Sartre’s materialistic

‘monismposited as a dualism ... is [both] at once’


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11-13Dial Dialecticalposited joiningsI cannot be confirmed at the center of

inanimate Natureposited/1neg (CDR32-6, 180 out of sequence)

Sartre, CDR (p. 32, Fr. 151) "Must we then deny the existence of

dialecticalposited joiningsok at the center of inanimate Natureposited/1neg? By no

means. Indeed, in the presentI stage of our knowledge [connaissance]lived, I

do not see that we are in a position either to affirmdial or to deny it..."**

(CDRp. 34, Fr. 153) "...Engels*** mistakee... was to thinklived that he

could extract his dialecticalI lawsI from NatureI by non-dialecticalI

procedures—comparison, analogy, abstractionI and induction. In fact,

dialectical Reasonposited/1negok is a wholedial and must found itself by itself,

that is to say [c’est-à-dire] dialecticallylived.

"(1) The failure of dialectic_dogmatism has shown that the

dialecticposited as rationalityc must discoverdial/livedc itself in everyday

expérienceposited, at once [à la fois] as the objectivelivedc joiningok between

factsposited and as the methodposited for knowing [connaître]lived and fixing this

joiningI..."

(CDRp. 35) "(2)...[beginning is out of sequence at Herein-dualism] The

possibilitylived that a dialecticlived exists is itself dialecticalposited; or, to put it

another way, the possibleI unity of the dialecticposited as lawontology of

historicallived development and the dialecticlived as knowledge [connaissance]lived

in movementdial/lived of this development is the unity of a dialectical

movementI.**** Beingposited/1negc is the negation of Knowing

[Connaître]posited/1neg, and KnowingI draws its being[-there]lived from the negationI

of Beingposited/1negc.

(CDRp. 35-6) "(3) ‘Men make their own Historyposited/1neg on the basis of

prior conditions.

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See http://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/works/history/ch13.htm, for

1961 debate of Sartre and three other authors on dialectics of matter.

Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-MATTER, MATERIALlived; cf. Herein-

worked_matterlived;

Hazel Barnes "Introduction," Search for a Method (p. xiii) "Sartre

points out that matter as such—that is as Beingposited/1neg which is totally

devoid of any human significationlived—is never encountered in humanI

experience."

http://www.marxists.org/archive/novack/works/history/ch13.htm


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CDR: (p. 180, Fr. 290, out of sequence from Sartre\Political Scarcity-

Worked_‘matter as the motivelived force of history,’ Fr. 290) "If materiality is

everywhere and it is indissolubly linked to the significationslived engraved

in it by praxislived, if a grouplived of menlived can actlived as a quasi-mechanical

system and a thing can produce its own idealived, what becomes of matter,

that is to say, Beingposited/1neg totally pure of significationI? The answer is

simple: it does not present itself anywhere in human expérienceposited. At

any momentdial of Historyposited/1neg things are humanI precisely to the extent

that humansI are things...";

(p. 198c) "...matter (that is to say, the impossibility of distinct

bodies occupying the same place at the same time)..."

Helvetius: a materialist, stated: ‘Men ... are the creators of matter.’

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** CDR (p. 85c) "...But if Natureposited/1neg is an immense dispersive

decompressionlivedc, if the connectionok [of three degrees]posited&posited between

naturalposited factsposited can only be conceived in the mode of exteriorityposited,

then the singular couplings of certain particles and the little solar system

which provisionally results from them are not particularizationsdial, except

in a purely formalposited, logicalposited and idealist sense..."

*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-ENGELS, Friedrich, [1820-1895]

**** Copied and see Herein-Dialecticposited ‘is a methodposited and a

movementlived in the object’

11-13Dial 9. The Domain of Dialectical_Reasonposited (CDR36-41)

7-14Dial Prior totalizationsI ‘comprehendlived and resolve problems only

insofar as directed and limited by the concrete_totalitydial/lived of the

determinations it preserves’ (FI2:3)

The Family Idiot (2:3, , Fr. 1:653-4, out of sequence from Sartre/Flaubert’s

Personalization-1. Conversion (2:3)) "There is an enormous difference, however, between

the simple Aufhebung of a given2neg and the totalizingontology repetition to which we subject it,

in order both to integrate the Aufhebung into the organic unity we try to be and to prevent it

from jeopardizing that unity, from sitting there like a worm in an apple and spoiling the fruit

from the inside. Perpetual totalization [in course] rises like a defense against our permanent

detotalizationdial**, which is less a matter of simple diversity than of shattered unity. In

human_realitylived, indeed, multiplicity is always haunted by a dream or memory of synthetic


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unity; the detotalizationI itself demands to be retotalizeddial, and totalizationI is not a mere

inventory followed by a totaling report, but an intentional and directed enterprise of

reunification.

(2:3-4, Fr. 653) "This reunification, however, must not be taken for a kind of Kantian

unification of empirical diversity. There are no outside [dehors] categories being applied

here to experiencec [vécu]; it is experienceI [vécu] itself that is unified in a movementdial/lived

of circularityc with the means at hand—the affects and ideas that prompt one to

interiorizationlived of objectivelived structuresdial/lived. This retotalizationdial*** can take place

in an infinite variety of ways, depending on the particular individuallived, and, in the same

individualI, depending on his age and outlook. (2:4, Fr. 654) We must comprehendlivedok its

dependence dialecticallylived on the previous totalizationI, which is now detotalizeddial (or

threatened with being); the earlier totalizationI, being[-there]lived highly structuredI—even

after its collapse or the introduction of a foreign element—poses a singular question to a

synthetic activityI which, as it is only the surpassing1neg of the detotalizedI ensemblelived, can

comprehendlived and resolve problems only insofar as it is directed and limited by the

concrete_totalitydial/lived**** of the determinations [‘that is, as limitation’] it preserves within

it. It would therefore be more correct to say that the question and the answer are conditioned

by the same ‘previous circumstances’ and by the same options, or again that it is the

question in its singularity that surpasses1neg itself as a singular answer. Furthermore, the

process of integration is permanent only because it is led into permanence by the exteriorlived

stimuli that are interiorizedlived as experiencedFr=? determinations [‘...limitation’].

Consequently, we have no difficulty comprehendinglived that this perpetuum mobilelived/1neg is

kept in motion by a connectionlived&lived [rapport] [of three degrees] to the worldlived/2neg that

is constantly varyinglived/1neg in intensity and quality to the degree that the cosmic

individuallived interiorizesI the cosmos and is reexteriorizeslived in it, finding himself sooner or

later compelled to reinteriorizelived the objectivelived consequences of that exteriorizationlived

(in others words, its objectificationlived).

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See Sartre\Negation-In ‘existence and tension determined/limited by the wholedial, every

particular exists in the unity of a fundamental contradiction’, and cross-references.

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-DETOTALIZATIONdial;

CDR: (p. 292c) "...all social objectsc are collectiveslived in their fundamental

materiality; as long as they last, all of them derive their realitylived from the perpetual

detotalizationdial of the totalitydial/lived of menlived; basically, they all presuppose a hemorrhage

gnawing away a materialI presence...";

The Family Idiot: (2:6c) "...[In neurotic stress because the neurosis is] not opposed

openly and attacked head on, the nonassimilable element becomes not only an agent of

detotalizationdial, but the active principlepositedc of a negative_totalization, which develops in

opposition to the other and totalizes it in reverse...";

Sartre\Flaubert’s Neurosis-RObjective Spiritontology/1neg, a material

detotalizationdial interiorizedlived as demand;

Herein-RBoth unrealization and derealizationdial within one sentence or

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-RETOTALIZATIONDIAL

[IZED] ; cf. detotalized_totalization;

Sartre\Negation-RIn ‘existence and tension determined/limited by the wholedial, every

particular produces itself in the unity of a fundamental contradiction’;

The Family Idiot (2:67c) "...His mother ... constitutedI him such that he never stopped

demanding from her a form of sexual retotalizationdial that had frustrated him from the cradle

and subsequently revealedlived herself incapable by naturelived of giving him..."

**** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CONCRETE_TOTALITYdial/lived [ization,concret]; cf.

eventlived; all hits listed

Search for a Method: (p. 5c) "...This concrete_totalizationdial/lived is at the same time the

abstractlived project of pursuing the unification up to its final limits. In this sense philosophy

is characterized as a method of investigationok and explication...";

(p. 25c) Of course, the physicist’s hypothesis, before being confirmed by

experimentation, is also a deciphering of the expérienceposited; it rejects the empiricism

simply because it is mute. But the constitutiveI analytic_schemepositedc of this hypothesis is

universalizingposited, it is not totalizingpositedc. It determinesdial [‘that is, as limitation’] a

connectionFr=? [of three degrees]posited&posited, a functionpositedc, and not a

concrete_totalitydial/lived..."

CDR: (p. 37c, Fr. 155) "...The dialecticlived, if it exists, can be the totalization [in

course]lived of concrete_totalizationsdial/lived effected by a multiplicity of totalizingontology

singularitieslived. I shall refer to this as dialectical nominalismc...";

CDRII: (p. 21c) "...since each punch is comprehendedlivedok and foreseen on the basis

of that ensemblelived, and surpassing, since it envelops the present bout and effects the

concrete_totalizationdial/1lliv of all contemporary bouts. The boxer surpasses1neg boxinglived,

and boxingI envelops the boxer since it itself requires that transcendencelived/1neg. It is

entirely contained in that punch...";

(p. 41c) "...This relativity of possibleI Beingposited/1neg—which we will study in

itself somewhat further on—makes the abstractposited universal into a secondary

structuredial/posited of concrete_totalizationlived...";

9-14Dial Thoughtlived must discoverdial/lived its own necessityCDRdial/ontology in its

materialI objectlived and the material object’s necessityI in itself as material (CDR36) Sartre, Search for a Method (p. 32, Fr. 37, Ftn. 9c) "...an actionlived, in the course of its

accomplishment, provides its own clarification..."

Sartre, CDR (p. 36, Fr. 154) "(4) We are dealing with a materialist_dialecticposited**;

and by this II mean—from a strictly epistemological*** point of viewlived&posited—that

thoughtlivedR must discoverdial/lived its own necessityCDRdial/ontology in its material objectlived,

while discoveringI in itself, in so far as it is itself a materialI being[-there]lived, the necessityI

of its objectIe Hegelian idealism, Marxism... This inevitably refers us from thoughtlived to actionI.

Indeed, the formerlived is only a momentdial/lived of the latterlived. We must therefore inquire

whether, in the unity of an apodicticposited expérience, every praxis is constituteddial/group, in

and through the materialI universe, as the surpassing1neg of its being-as-an-objectlived by the

Otherposited/1neg while uncovering the praxis of the OtherI as an objectI. But, at the same

time, a relationposited&lived as 1st&2negok must be established, by and through the OtherI, between

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each praxislived and the universe of thingslived, in such a way that, in the course of a

totalization [in course] which is not in itself ever arrested, the thinglived becomes humanlived

and manlived realizesontology/1neg&2neg himselfontology/2neg as a thingontology/1neg. It must be shown,

in concretelived realitylived, that the dialectical methodposited is indistinguishable from the

dialectical movementlived, that is to say both from the relationsokposited&posited as 1st&2neg which

each personI posited/1neg [soutient] has with everyone through inorganic_materialityposited/2neg,

and from those [relationI lived&lived as 1st&2neg] which he has with his materialitylived/1neg and with

his own organicI materialI existencelived/2neg, through hislived/1neg relationsIok

lived&lived as 1st&2neg

with otherslived/2negok. We must establish that the dialectic is based on this permanent

expérienceposited of everyone: in the universe of exteriority****2lived, one's relationlived&posited

as 1st&2negok of exterioritylived/2neg to the material universe and to the Otherposited/1neg is always

accidental, though always present; but one's relationIok

lived&lived as 1st&2neg of interioritylived

with menlived and with thingslived is fundamental, though often concealed."

Sartre, "The Itinerary of a Thought" (p. 35c) "...everything is objectivelived. The

individuallived interiorizes*****1lived his social determinations [‘that is, as limitation’]: he

interiorizeslived the relationsFr=? of production, the family of his childhood, the historicallived

past, the contemporary institutions, and he then re-exteriorizeslived these in actslived and

options which necessarilyCDRdial refer us back to them."

Peter Caws, Sartre (p. 154) "...because historylived is the resultant of individual wills in

relation to one another, affirming, negating, negating their negations, we have at hand in

principle everything we need to understand it, because that is the kind of relation we live in

our own projects..."

ibid, Sartre (p. 164c) "...[In Being and Nothingness] Sartre introduced the case of the

subject who becomes an objectI for an objectI and hence appears as a for-OthersI ; here he

describes how social unity (nomads and peasants in China, for example) experience ‘the

OtherI as the objectI for which it is itself an objectI’ in a field of praxis where need has

encountered scarcity and thus generated struggle..."

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** Sartre\Index of Terms-MATERIALIST DIALECTICposited;

CDR: (p. 15c, Fr. 135) "...I have proposed certain methodologicalposited ruleslivedR; but

they cannot be validdial/lived, in fact they cannot even be discussed, unless the materialist

dialecticposited can be assumed to be trueontology. If one wishes in effect to workout the detail

of an analytic-syntheticc and regressive-progressivec methodposited, it is

necessaryCDRdial/posited/1neg to convince oneself that a negation1 of a negation2 can be an

affirmation, that conflicts—within a personlivedok or a grouplived—are the motivelived

ok force of

Historyposited/1neg, that each momentdial of a serieslived is comprehensiblelived on the basis of the

initial momentI, though irreducible to it, that HistoryI continually effects totalization [in

course] of totalizationsI, and so on...";

(p. 181, Ftn. 56c, Fr. 291) "...we have called the materialist dialecticposited from

the outside [de dehors]. It, too, begins with Beingposited/1negcok (Natureposited/1negc without alien

addition) and ends up with manlived; it too regards knowledge-reflection [connaissance]lived-

[reflet]lived as ‘an opening to Beingposited/1neg

(L’Étant) maintained in manI by BeingIc (l’Étré).’"


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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-EPISTEMOLOGYlived&ontology/posited;

Non-dialectic

Notebooks for an Ethics: (296c) "The problem with epistemologyposited is always

to determine [‘that is, as limitation’] the relationlived&lived as 1st&2negFr=? between my

intuitivelived thoughtlived and other’slivedFr=? truthlived...";

Dialecticposited

CDR: (p. 47c) "If dialectical Reasonposited/1neg exists, then, from the ontological

point_of_viewdouble connection as 1st&2neg, it can only be a ‘totalization in courselived/1neg’ there

where this totalizationlived/2neg took place, and, from the epistemological point_of_viewI, it

can only be the permeability [openness] of that totalizationlived/2neg to a knowledge

[connaissance]lived/2neg which is itself, in principleposited, totalizingontology in its procedures.";

(p. 49c) "...If a totalizationI is developing in a given2neg region of

realitylived, it must be a singular process occurring in singular conditions and, from the

epistemologicalontology point_of_viewI, it will produce the universal which illuminate it and

singularizeslived/2negc them by interiorizinglived/1negc them..."

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****2 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-EXTERIORITY/EXTERIORIZATIONlived or posited [extériorité];

not ‘external.’

Search for a Method: See sub-topic below

Sartre, CDR (p. 58c) "...thoughtlived must make itself a thing and govern itself in

exterioritylived to become the naturallivedc milieu in which the objectlived under consideration

defines itself in itself, as conditioned through exteriorityI..."

(p. 72c, Fr. 186, my paragraph break) sartre¶"...In the second volume we will also

learn that exterioritylived is the inert motivelivedok force of Historyposited/1neg in that it is the only

possiblelived basis for the novelty which places its seal on it and which it preserves at once [à

la fois] as an irreducible momentdial and as a memory of Humanityposited/1neg..."

(p. 87c) "...In the organism, bonds of interioritylived overlaybelow those of

exterioritylived; in the instrumental_fieldlived, it is the other way round: a bond of internalok

unification underlies the multiplicity of exterioritylived, [which overlaysabove praxis] and it is

praxislived which, in the light of the endlived, constantly reshapes the order of exterioritylived on

the basis of a deeper unity...";

(p. 224c) "...in the practical_fieldlived of actionlived ... [e]xterioritylived exists to the

extent that the toolok as materiality is part of other fields of interioritylived e...";

(CDRp. 227c, Fr. 336) "...It is this connectionlived&lived as 1st&2neg [rapport] [of three

degrees] between interioritylived and exterioritylived which originally constituteddial/group

praxisI as a relationlived&lived as 1st&2negok of the organism to its materialI environmentlived..."

Herein-Interiorizationlived ‘of the exteriorlived’ and the ‘exteriorizationI of the

interiorI’ (SM97, out of sequence)

Sartre\Negation-RFirst contradiction: Interioritylived and exterioritylived imposed

on the same organism;

The Family Idiot: (5:36c) "...[unreflective work] is the interiorizationlived of the

exteriorlived and the reexteriorizationlived of the interiorI. As such, it [unreflective work] is


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lived experienceFr=? and consequently revealedlived both itself—as imposed, for example, and

remaining exterior even while interiorizedIlived...";

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*****1 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-INTERIOR/INTERIORITY/INTERIORIZATIONlived [intérieur,

intériorité, intériorise; intériorisées].

BN: (p. 244c, Fr. 282) "...the sole point of departure is the interioritylived of the

cogitolived. We must understandpositedok by this that each one must be able by starting out

from their own interioritylived, to rediscoverdial/lived the other’slived being[-there]lived as a

transcendencelived/1neg which conditions the very being[-there]I of that interioritylived...";

Search for a Method: See sub-topic below

CDR: (p. 38c) "...The dialecticlivedc revealslived itself only to a observerlived situatedlived

in interioritylived...";

(p. 49c, paraphrased) Totalizationlived as interiorizationlived produces and

singularizes_universals;

(p. 60c) "...Interioritylived exteriorizeslived itself in order to interiorizelived

exteriorityI.";

(p. 71c) "...a thorough examination of individuallivedok praxis will show us that it

interiorizeslived the exteriorlived (in delimiting, through actionlived itself, a practical_fieldlived);

(p. 96c) "...the connectionlived&lived as 1st&2neg [rapport] [of three degrees] between

labourerslived and employerlived (...) is a simple connectionI [rapport] of exterioritylived. But

this connectionI [rapport] of exteriorityI is itself inconceivable except as a reificationc of an

objectivelived connectionI [rapport] [of three degrees] of interioritylived...";

(p. 101c) "...every negationc is a relationoklived&posited as 1st&2neg of interioritylived.

By this I mean that the realityposited of the Otherposited/1neg affectslivedc melived/2neg in the depths

of my being[-there]lived to the extent that it is not my realityI..."

(p. 154c) "e...The motivationlivedok of reflection (reflexion) [réflexion]lived consists

in a double attempt, simultaneously an objectificationlived and an interiorizationlived;

interioritylived sometimes has ‘links,’ a ‘unity of interiorizedlived multiplicity,’

‘interiorizinglived its multiplicity at all levels,’;

Sartre\Freedom-Passive dialecticlived inverts both relationsok of interioritylived

and exterioritylived (CDR 223, Fr. 333)

(p. 254c) "...only expérienceposited can permit the internal_connectiondial/livedok

c of

the interiorlivedc structuresdial/lived to a definite grouplivedc and as a definite momentdial of its

interiorlived dialecticlived...";

(p. 499c) ...the wholedial as a developing totalization [in course], exists in

everyone and in the form of a unity of the interiorizedlived multiplicity and nowhere else.";

Herein-Participation grasps bonds of interioritylived linked to culturelived

-Interiorizationlived ‘of the exteriorlived’ and the ‘exteriorizationI of the

interiorI’ (SM97, out of sequence)

"On The Idiot of the Family": (p. 113c) "...interioritylived, that is to say, ideas which

overlap with one another, which have internal_negative—or dialecticallived—

relationships...";


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The Family Idiot: (5:36c) "...[unreflective work] is the interiorizationlived of the

exteriorlived and the reexteriorizationlived of the interiorlived. As such, it [unreflective work] is

lived experienceFr=? and consequently revealedlived both itself—as imposed, for example, and

remaining exteriorlived even while interiorizedlived...";

11-13Dial Interiorizationlived ‘of the exteriorlived’ and the ‘exteriorizationI of the

interiorI’ (SM97, out of sequence) Sartre, Search for a Method (p. 97-8P, Fr. 80) "I cannot describe here the truelivedc

ok

dialectic of the subjectivelived and the objectivelived. One would have to demonstrate the joint

necessityCDRdial of ‘the interiorizationlivedR of the exteriorlivedR’ and of ‘the exteriorizationI of

the interiorI’. Praxis, in effect, is a passage from objectivelivedc to objectiveI through

interiorizationI. The project, as the subjectiveI surpassing1negc of objectivitylived toward

objectivityI, and stretched between the objectiveI conditions of the environment and the

objectiveI structuresdial/lived of the field of possibleslived, represents in itself the moving unity

of subjectivityI and objectivityI, those cardinal determinants [‘that is, as limitation’] of

activitylived. The subjectiveI appearslived [apparaît] then as a necessaryCDRdial momentdial in the

objectiveI process. If the material conditions which govern human_relationslived are to

become reallived conditionsI of praxis, they must be livedok in the particularitydial of particular

situationse=examples... [The worker] knows [sait]lived what he has resented and what otherslived

will resentI. Now, to resentI is already to transcendlived/1neg, to move toward the possibilityI of

an objectiveI transformationlived. In the proof of lived experience [vécu], the subjectivityI

turns back upon itself and wrenches itself from despair through objectificationlived. (SMp. 98,

Fr. 80) Thus the subjectiveI draws back within itself the objectiveI, which it denies2neg and

which it surpasses toward a new objectivityI; and this new objectivityI by virtue of

objectificationlived exteriorizeslived the interioritylived of the projectlived as an objectifiedI

subjectivitylived. This means that all at once [à la fois] the lived experience [vécu] as such

finds its place in the result and that the [Psych] projected meaningCDR of the actionlived

appearsI [apparaît] in the realitylived of the worldlived that it may get its truthontology in the

process of totalization [in course]ontology.4"

SMFtn. 4, Fr. 80, "I add these observations: (1) That this objectiveI truthlived of the

objectifiedlived subjectivelivedc must be considered as the only truthI of the subjectiveI. Since

it [truth2neg] exists only in order to be objectifiedI, it is on the basis of the objectificationI,

that is on the realizationontology/1neg&2neg, that it must be judged [as doubly ontological] in

itselfontology/1neg and in the worldontology/2neg. An actionI cannot be judged by the intentionR

behind it. (2) That this truthI will allow us to appreciate in totalitydial/lived the objectifiedI

projectI. An actionI such as it appearslived [apparaît] in the light of contemporary historylived

and of a particular set of circumstances, may be revealedlived to be ill-fated from the start—

for the grouplived that supports it (e...). And at the same time its unique objectiveI

characteristic may revealI it to be an enterprise in good faithlived. When one considers an

actionI harmful to the establishing of socialism, it may be so only in consideration to this

particular aim. To characterize it as harmful can in no case prejudice what the actionI is in

itself; that is, considered on another levelok of objectivityI, and related to particular

circumstances and to the conditioning of the singular environmente..."


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8-15Dial Dialectic contradictionI results from structureddial/posited materialityposited:

Contradiction subsequently becomes its own motivelived force (CDR37) Sartre, CDR (p. 37, Fr. 155) "(5) The dialecticposited, however, if it is to be a

[dialectical] Reasonposited/1negR rather than a blind lawontology, must give itself as

unsurpassable1neg intelligibilitydial/posited. The content, the development, the order of

apparition of negations, of negation1 of negation2, of conflicts, etc., the phases of the

struggle between opposeddial/posited termsposited and its outcome—in short, the realityposited of

the dialecticalposited movementdial/posited, is governed in its entirety by the basic conditions of

the structuresdial/positedR of materialityposited, the initial situationposited, the continuous

actionposited of exteriorposited and interiorposited factors, and the balance of the forcesposited

involved. Thus there is no one dialecticposited which imposes itself upon the factsposited, as the

Kantian categories impose themselves on phenomena; but the dialecticI, if it exists, is the

singular career of its objectposited.** There can be no pre-established schema imposed on

singular developments, neither in someone's head, nor in an intelligibleI heaven; if the

dialectic existsI, it is because certain regions of materialityI are structuredI in such a way that

it cannot not existI. In other words, the dialectical movementI is not some powerful unitary

force revealinglived itself behind Historyposited/1neg like the will of God. It is first and foremost

a resultantposited; it is not the dialecticposited which forces historicallived men to live their

historylived in terrible contradiction; it is men, as they are, dominated by scarcity and

necessityCDRdial, and confronting one another in circumstances which HistoryIok or economics

can inventory, but which only dialecticalposited rationality can explain. Before contradictionIR

can be a motivelivedok force, it is a resultposited; and, the dialecticontology appears ontologically as

the only type of connectionok [of three degrees]lived&lived which individualslivedok can establish

amongst themselves, situatedlived and constituteddial/group in a certain way, and on account of

their very constitutionI. The dialectic, if it exists, can be the totalization [in course] of

_totalizationslivedc effected by a multiplicity of totalizinglived singularitieslived. [Fr. 156] I shall

refer to this as dialectical nominalismc. Nevertheless, the dialectic cannot be validdial/lived***

for all the particular cases which recreate it, unless it appears every time as necessityCDRdial in

the expérienceposited which rediscoversdial/lived it, nor is it validlived unless it provides us with

the key to the process which expresses it, that is, unless we apprehendlived it as the

intelligibilitydial/lived of the process in consideration."18

------------------------------------------------- CDRFtn. 18, "And, from this point of viewdouble connection of 1st&2neg, nominalismIc is also a

dialecticalposited realismposited."

** See Herein-Dialectical_circularitylived: Objectificationlived as manlived actinglived on matter;

objectivitylived as matter actingI on manI

*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-VALIDdial/lived; [valable]; comprehensiblelived;

Transcendence of the Ego: Throughout pages 32-42 of this work the French droit has

been translated as ‘validity.’ This translation fits its contexts but cannot be found in French

dictionaries. On page 62 of this work droit is appropriately translated as ‘right.’


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Sartre\being-there-RA. [Sartre’s critique of] The theory of the formalposited

presence of the I [Je], with "to pass on factposited, not on validitylived, and to take a

point_of_viewdouble connection of 1st&2neg radicallyontology different from that of Kantlived..."

Search for a Method: (p. 32, Fr. 37, Ftn. 9c) "...The only theory of knowledge

[connaissance]lived that can be validlived today is one which is founded on that truthlived of

microphysics: the experimenter is a part of the experimental system. This is the only

position which allows us to get rid of all idealist illusions..."

11-13Dial Dialectic revealslived itself to one livinglived an inquiry into their praxisI and

its epoche (CDR38) Sartre, CDR (p. 37-8, Fr. 156) "The combination of the necessityCDRdial and

intelligibilitydial/posited of dialectical Reasonposited/1negok

R, with the need to discoverdial/lived it

empirically in each instance, leads to several reflections [réflexion]lived. (p. 38) In the first

place, no one can discoverI the dialecticlived while keeping the point of view of

analytical_Reasonposited; which means, among other things, that no one can discoverI the

dialecticlived while remaining exteriorlived to the object under consideration. Indeed, for

anyone considering a given2neg system in exterioritylived, no specific expérienceposited can

show whether the movementdial/lived of the system is a continuous unfolding or a succession

of discrete instants. The stance of the desituated experimenter, however, tends to perpetuate

analytical_ReasonI as the model of intelligibilityIdial/posited; the scientist’s passivityposited/1neg in

connectionposited&posited [rapport] [of three degrees] to the systemposited/2neg will tend to

reveallived to him a passivity of the systemposited/1neg in connectionposited&1neg [rapport] [of three

degrees] to himselflived/2neg. The dialecticlived revealsI itself only to a observerlivedc situatedI in

interioritylivedc, that is to say, an investigatorlived** who lives his inquiry at once [à la fois] as

a possiblelived contribution to the ideology of the entire epoch and as the particular praxis of

an individuallivedok defined by his historicallived and personallived adventure within the wider

historylived which conditions it. In short, in order to preserve the Hegelian idea (that

Consciousness knows [connait]lived itself in the Otherposited/1negok and knows [connait]lived the

OtherIok in itself), while completely discarding its idealism, I must be able to say that the

praxis of everyone, as a dialecticallived movement, must revealI itself to each as the

necessityCDRdial of his own praxis*** and conversely, that the freedomCDR, for everyone, of

his singular praxisI must rediscoverdial/lived itself in everyone so as to disclose to him a

dialecticlived which produces itself and produces him in so far as it is produced. The

dialecticlived as the living logicposited of actionlived is invisible to

contemplative_reasonokposited****: it [the dialectic] revealslived itself in the course of praxis

as a necessaryCDRdial momentdial of it; in other words, it is created anew in each actionI

(though actionsI appearlived [apparaissent] only on the basis of a worldlived entirely

constituteddial/group by the dialecticlived praxisI of the past) and becomes a theoretical and

practical methodposited when actionI in the course of development begins to give an

explanation of itself. In the course of this actionlived, the dialecticlived revealsI itself to the

individualokIc as rational transparency in so far as he produces it, and as absoluteontology

necessityCDRdial***** in so far as it escapes him, that is to say, quite simply, in so far as it is

produced by otherslived. Finally, to the extent that the individualokI recognizes himselflived in


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the transcendencelived/1neg of his needslived/2neg, he recognizes the lawontology which othersI

impose on him in transcendingI their own (he recognizes it; this does not mean that he

submitsontology/2neg to it), he recognizes his own autonomy (in so far as it can be, and

consequently is, exploited by the otherI—shamming, manoeuvring, etc.) as an alien power

and the autonomy of the othersI as the inexorable lawI which enables him to coerce them.

But, through the very reciprocitylived of coercions and autonomies, the lawI ends up by

escaping everyone, and in the revolving movementdial/lived of totalization it appearsI

[apparaît] as dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg, that is to say, exteriorlived to all because interiorlived

to each; and a totalization_[totalisation en cours], _though_without_a_totalizerRc, of all the

totalized_totalizationR and of all the detotalized totalitiesdial/lived."

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-INVESTIGATORlived [enquêteur, not recherche];

INVESTIGATIONposited [investigation]

*** cf. Sartre\Freedom-Man ‘who recognizes himself in his work completely and who also

does not recognize himself in it at all’

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**** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CONTEMPLATIVE REASONposited; 2 hits, CDR above &

CDRII (p. 29c) "...Then the connectioncok [of three degrees]ontology&posited—and this comes

back to the foregoing condition [transcendence and survival of the action]—is not created by

actionlived (it is the objectI which can be created, not the connectionIok to the concept or the

conceptI itself); it is an ontological and logicalpositedc connectionIok, which can yield itself

only to contemplative_reasonposited..."

***** See Sartre\Freedom-Momentdial ‘of necessityCDRdial in practical experiencelived is the

simultaneous recognition of same as Otherposited/1neg and OtherI as same’

11-13Dial If ‘these provisional remarks are challenged and modified collectively in

working groups, then I shall be satisfied’ (CDR40) Sartre, CDR (p. 40-1, Fr. 158) "...Our problem is criticalposited**. Doubtless this

problem is itself raised by Historyposited/1neg. But it is precisely a matter of testing, criticizing

and establishing, within Historyposited/1negc and at this momentdial in the development of

human societies, the instruments of thoughtlived by means of which Historyposited/1neg

thinkslived itself**** in so far as they are also the practical instruments by means of which it

[History] is made. Of course, we shall be driven from Doing to Knowing

[Connaître]posited/1neg and from Knowing [Connaître]posited/1neg to Doing in the unity of a

process which will itself be dialecticalposited. But our reallived aim is theoretical. It can be

formulated in these terms: on what conditions is the knowledge [connaissance]lived of a

historylived possiblelived? To what extent can the joiningok brought to light be

necessaryCDRdial? What is dialecticalposited rationality and what are its limits and

foundation?e... But I am far from believinglived that the isolated effort of an individualI can

provide a satisfactory answer—even a partial one—to so vast a question which engages with

the totalitydial/lived of Historyposited/1neg in play. (CDRp. 41, Fr. 159) If these initial studies have

done no more than enable me to define the problem, by means of provisional remarks which

are there to be challenged and modified, and if they give rise to a discussion and if, as would


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be best, this discussion is carried on collectivelylived in working groups, then I shall be

satisfied."

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Ref Sartre\Intelligibility of History-Sartre, Hope Now, CDR did not ripen: Fraternity as

more basic than politics of production; -Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre/Caws: Sartre’s major works,

which expand toward inconceivable fulfillment, often find other avenues

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CRITICALposited; cf. critical_expérience, critical

consciousness; critical_reflexion [réflexion]lived;

The Transcendence of the Ego: (p. 35c) "...phenomenologyposited is a scientific, not a

criticalposited study of consciousness. Its essential way of proceeding is by intuitionlived.

IntuitionI , according to Husserl, puts us in the presence of the thing...";

Psychology of Imagination: (p. 4c) "Ftn. 1. cf.. our criticalposited study

L’Imagination...";

BN: (p. 250P) on criticalposited examination of Heidegger’s teaching;

CDR: (p. 69c) "...Volume II will retrace the stages of the criticalposited progression...";

CDRII: (p. 17c) "...at an initial stage of the criticalposited inquiry one might ask whether

each struggle is not, in itself, the totalization [in course] of all struggles: in critical terms,

whether the comprehensionlived of a conflict—for example, the boxing match we were

discussing—does not necessarilyCDRdial refer back to the totalizingontology comprehensionI of

the fundamental conflicts (scarcity) characterizing the social ensemblelived that corresponds

to it...";

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Primacy of Perception, (p. 3) "We never cease living in

the world of perception, but we go beyond it in critical thought... For critical thought

encounters only bare propositions which it discusses, accepts or rejects. Critical thought has

broken with the naive evidence of things, and when it affirms, it is because it no longer finds

any means of denial."

Audi, Robert: The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (1995, p. 170, ce, James

Bohman) "...any social theory that is at the same time explanatory, normative, practical, and

self-reflexive. The term was first developed by Max Horkheimer as a self description of the

Frankfurt School and its revisions of Marxism... [A]s self-reflexive, critical theories must

account for their own conditions of possibilityontology and for their potentially transformative

effects...";

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**** See Herein-Dialectic ‘is both methodposited and movementlived in the object’

9-14Dial Introduction: II CritiqueI of Critical_ExpérienceI (CDR42-76)

11-13Dial 1. The Basis of Critical_Expériencelived (CDR42)

Sartre, CDR (p. 42-3, Fr. 159) "...a scientific hypothesis includes its own

experimental exigencieslived... But our concern is with the problem of a totalizingposited

expérienceposited, and this clearly signifieslived that it bears only an extremely distant


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resemblance to the expérienceposited of the exact sciences. Nevertheless, it too must

announce itself in its technical singularity, detail the instruments of thoughtlived it employs,

outline the concretelived system it will constituteI (that is to say, the structuraldial/posited

realityposited which will be exteriorizedposited in its experimental practice). This is what we

shall now specify.

[1, my paragraph breaks] sartre¶By what defined experimentation can we expect to

expose and demonstrate the realitylived of the dialecticallived process?

(CDRp. 43) [2] What instruments do we need?

[3] What is the point of application of one of these?

[4] What experimental system must we construct?

[5] On the basis of what factsposited?

[6] What type of extrapolation will it justify?

[7] What will be the validitydial/lived of its proofs?"

11-13 2. Dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg as Intelligibilitydial/posited (CDR43-5)

Sartre, CDR (p. 43, Fr. 160) "[2] In order to answer these questions we must have

some guide-line; and this is provided purely by what the object demandse... [I]n the very last

part of Kant’s life, the requirement of intelligibilityI led him right up to the threshold of

dialectical Reasonposited/1neg"

(CDRp. 44, Fr. 160-1) "If, however, dialectical ReasonIok

R has to be grasped

[transformslivedtoposited] initially through human_relationslived, then its fundamental

characteristics imply that it revealslived itself as apodicticposited here**3 expérienceposited in its

very intelligibilitydial/posited. It is not a matter of simply asserting its existence, but rather of

directlyposited experiencingFr=? its existenceI through its intelligibilitydial/posited, independent of

any empirical discovery. In other words, if the dialectic is the reason of Beingposited/1neg and

of Knowledge [Connaître]posited/1negc, at least in certain regions, it must manifest itself as

double intelligiblelived&posited. Firstly, the dialecticlived itself as the lawontologyc of the worldlived

and of knowledge [savoir]livedc must be intelligiblelived; that is to say [c’est-à-dire], contrary

to positivist_Reasonposited/1neg, to include in itself its proper intelligibilitylived. In the second

[intelligibleposited] place, if some reallived factposited—for example a historicallived process—

develops itself dialecticallyposited, the lawontology of its apparitionlivedok and of its becoming

must be—from the point of viewposited of Knowledge [Connaissance]posited/2negc—the pure

foundation of its intelligibilityposited/1neg. For the present, we are concerned only with

original_intelligibilitydial/lived [primary intelligibility]livedc. This intelligibilitylived is the

transluciditydial/lived*** of the dialecticlivede... The ruleslived of positivist_ReasonI posited/1neg

appearlived [apparaissent] as separate instructions (unless this Reasonposited/1negok is envisaged

as a limiting case of dialectical_Reasonposited/1negok and from its point of viewposited&posited.

Each of the so-called ‘lawsI’ of dialectical Reasonposited/1negok is the wholedial

ok of the

dialectic: otherwise the dialectic would cease to be a dialectical process, and thoughtlived, as

the praxis of the theoretician, would necessarilyCDRdial be discontinuous. Thus the basic

intelligibilityI [primary intelligibility]lived of dialectical Reasonposited/1negok, if it exists, is that

of a totalization [in course]lived. In other words, in terms of our distinction between

Beingposited/1neg and Knowledge [Connaître]posited/1neg, a dialecticlived existsI if, in at least one

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ontological sector [secteur]****, a totalizationlived is in progress which is immediately

accessible to thoughtlived which unceasingly totalizesposited itself in its very

comprehensionlived of the totalizationposited from which it emanates and which makes itself its

object?."

(CDRp. 44-5, Fr. 161) sartre¶"e...the dialecticalposited ‘principlesposited’ are conceived either

as mere data or as induced lawsontology ... [if] seen from the point of viewposited&posited of

positivist_ReasonI in the same way as positivist_ReasonI conceives its own ‘categoriesI ’.

(CDRp. 45) Each of these so called dialectical lawsI become perfectly intelligibledial/lived&posited

when seen from the point of viewlived&posited of totalizationIc. It is therefore necessaryCDRdial

for the critical_expérienceposited to ask the fundamental questionok: is there a sector [secteur]

of being[-there]lived where totalizationI is the very form of existence?"

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**3 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-APODICTIC

lived or posited as noted;

apodictic as lived 1st degree

BN: (p. 151c, above) reflection [réflexion]lived—if it is to be apodicticlived

evidencedial/lived—demands that the reflexive [réflexif]lived be that which is reflected-on

[réfléchi]lived..."

(p. 157c) "...The apodicticlived nature of reflection [réflexion]lived allows no

doubtlivedc in so far as it graspsI the pastIlived exactly as it is for the consciousness reflected on

[réfléchi]lived which has to be it..."

apodictic as posited 2nd degree

BN: Sartre\Temporality-RApodicticposited expérienceposited is without the errors of

thematic reflection;

CDR: (p. 35P ) "...for us, it is necessaryCDRdial to find our apodicticposited

expérienceposited in the concretelived worldlived of Historyposited/1neg.";

(p. 39P ) "...we must realizeontology/1neg&2neg [as doubly ontological] the

situatedontology/2neg expérience of its apodicticityposited through ourselvesontology/1deg...";

(p. 228c) "In the momentdial where we reach the apodicticposited structuredial/positedc

of dialecticalposited expérienceposited, still in its most abstractposited form, the discoverydial/lived

by the agent of the alienationlived of his praxis is accompanied by the discoveryI of his

objectificationlivedc as alienatedI...";

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-TRANSLUCIDITYdial [of dialectic, translucidité]; CDR (p. 66,

below has, ‘abstractlived transluciditydial; above has "...original intelligibilitydial/lived [primary

intelligibility]lived ... [is] the transluciditydial of the dialecticlivede...";

BN: (p. 103c) "...If it [the Ego]posited/1neg did belong to consciousness, in effect, it

would be to itself its own foundation in the translucency of the immediate. But then we

would have to say that it is what it is not and that it is not what it is..."

The War Dairies: (p. 209c) "...But I’m not my own time either, in the way that

HeideggerR means. Otherwise there would be a temporalBN transluciditydial coinciding with

the transluciditydial of consciousness; consciousness would be time, inasmuch as it would be

consciousness of time. But it’s not the same with time as with pleasure, which can only

exist for consciousness if it is consciousness..."


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CDR: (p. 66c) "...This leads to the principal divisions of this first volume: the

constituentlived dialecticlived (as it grasps [transformslivedtoposited]c itself in its abstractlived

transluciditydial in individuallived praxis) finds its limit within its own work and is

transformedlived into an anti-dialectic...";

(p. 74c, Fr. 188) "...Comprehensionlivedc is simply the transluciditydial of praxis to itself,

whether it produces its own elucidation in constitutingdial/group itself, or recognizes itself in

the praxisI of the otherlivedok..."

cf. Herein-transparence [of praxis]

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**** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-SECTORontology [secteur];

CDR: (p. 45c) "...It is therefore necessaryCDRdial for the critical_expérienceposited to ask

the fundamental questionok: is there a sectorontology [secteur] of being[-there]lived where

totalizationI is the very form of existence?"

(p. 49c) "...Later, we shall see how far formalposited extrapolations are

conceivable (on the abstractlived hypothesis that, as yet unknown, ontological sectorsontology

[secteurs] are also totalizationsI)..."

11-13Dial 3. ‘Totalitydial/lived and Totalizationdial/lived’ (CDR45-6)

Sartre, CDR (p. 45c, repeating above) "...It is therefore necessaryCDRdial for the

critical_expérienceposited to ask the fundamental question: is there a regioncc of beinglived

where totalization is the very form of existence?

(CDRp. 45-6 Fr. 161) "From this point of viewlived&posited, and before taking the

discussion any further, we must make a clear distinction between the notionslived of

totalitydial/lived** and totalization [in course]dial/lived. A totalitydial/lived, is defined as a being[-

there]lived which, while radicallyontologyc distinct from the sum of its partsc, is present in its

entirety, in one form or another, in each of these partsI, and connectslived&lived as 1st&2neg

[rapport] [the three degrees] [the totalitylived/2neg] to itselflived/1neg either through its [the

totalities’lived/2neg] connectionI [rapport] to one or more of its partsI, or through its [the

totalities’] relationoklived&lived as 1st&2neg to the connectionI [rapport] that all, or several, of these

partsI maintain among themselves. But when, by hypothesis, this realitylived is made (a

painting*** or a symphony are examples, if one takes integrationI to an extreme), it can exist

only in the imaginarylived, that is to say, as a correlate of an actlived of imaginationI [also

below]. The ontological status to which itontology/1neg [image of painting] lays claim by its

very definition is that of the in-itselflivedc, the inertRc. The synthetic unity which will produce

its appearancelived of totalitydial/lived is not an activitylived, but only the vestige of a past action

(just as the unity of a metal is the passive remnant of its mintingS&A). Through its being[-

there]I-in-exterioritylived, the inertiaI of the in-itselfI gnaws away at this appearanceI of unity;

the passive_totalitydial/lived/2negc is, in fact, gnawed away by infinite divisibilityposited/1neg.

Thus, as the active power of holding together its parts, the totalitydial/lived/2neg is only the

correlative of an actlived/1neg of imaginationlived [also above]: the symphony or the painting, as

I have shown elsewhere, are imagineries aimed through the ensemblelivedc of dried paints or

the linking of sounds which serve as their analogonc. In the case of practical objectsposited—

machines, instruments, objectsI of consumption, etc.—our present actionlived makes them


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seem like totalitiesdial/lived by resuscitating, in some way, the praxis which attempted to

totalizedial/lived their inertiaI. We shall see below that these inertI totalitiesdial/lived are of

crucial importance and that they create the kind of relationoklived&lived as 1st&2neg between

menlived which we will refer to, later, as the practico-inertlived****. (CDRp. 46) These human

objectsI are worthy of attention in the humanI worldlived, for it is there that they attain their

practico-inert status; that is to say, they lie heavy on our destinylived because of the

contradiction which opposes praxis (the labour which made them and the labour which

utilizes them) and inertiaI, within them. But, as these remarks show, they are products; and

the totalitydial/lived, despite what one might thinklived, is only a regulative principleposited of the

totalizationI (and can simultaneously be reduced to the inertI ensemblelived of its provisional

creations)S&A.

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-TOTALITYdial/lived [totalité]; See Introduction-*capitalization;

cf. synthetic_totality?, passive_totalitydial/lived.

BN: (p. 302c) "...No consciousness, not even God’s, can ‘see the underside—that is,

apprehendlived the totalitydial/lived as such. Thus no point of view on the totalitydial/lived is

conceivable; the totalitydial/lived has no ‘outside,’ and the very question of the meaningBN of

the ‘underside’ is stripped of meaningI. We cannot go further."

Search for a Method: (p. 8-9c, Fr. 22) "The most ample philosophical totalization is

Hegelianism..."

CDR: see subtopic belowR; (p. 89c) "...the human universe [is] the universe of

totalitiesdial/lived...";

*** See Sartre\Imagination-2. The Work of Art

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**** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-PRACTICO-INERTlived [pracito-inerte]; cf. Sartre\Freedom-

practico-inert_field, -practico-inert_matter; see Peter Caws below at *; loosely, artifact but

culture, language, psychic, etc.

The Family Idiot: Sartre\Flaubert’s Neurosis-The ‘objective_Spiritposited/1neg—in a

defined society, in a given2neg era—is nothing more than Cultureposited/1neg as practico-

inertlived’

Peter Caws: "Sartrean Structuralism" (p. 309) The practico-inertlived surrounds and

constrains but also empowers and enables. "The practico-inert strikes me as one of the most

useful additions to the conceptual repertoire of social philosophy in the last century... It

consists of everything we encounter as ready-to-hand, as there waiting for us, at our

disposal, that has been devised and put in place ... not only tools and buildings, parks and

fields, books and records, but also customs and traditions and language itself."; (p. 312-3)

"The structures of the practico-inertlived in the second volume of the Critique permeate the

society and seem sometimes to be sufficiently beyond control, to be as good as objective...

[But the] ‘singular interiorization’ of an existing individual, represents Sartre’s predictable

refusal to give up existence in favor of structurec."

8-15Dial Totalizationlived as a developing activitylived (CDR46-7)

Sartre, CDR (p. 46-7, S&A 422-3, Fr. 162) "If, indeed, something must exist which

presents itself as the syntheticdial unity of the diverse, it must be a developing [en cours]


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unification, that is to say, an activity. The syntheticI unification of a habitat is not merely the

labour which has produced it, but also the activityI of inhabiting it; reduced to itself, it

reverts to the multiplicity of inertia. Thus totalization [in course]**lived has the same statusok

as the totalitydial/livedR: through the multiplicities, it continues that syntheticI labour which

makes each part a manifestation of the ensemblelived, and which connects [the three

degrees]lived&lived as 1st & 2neg the ensembleI to itself through the mediationlivedc of the partsI.

But it is a developing [en cours] activityI which cannot cease without the multiplicity

reverting to its original statusposited. This actlived [of totalizationI] delineates a practical_field

which, as the undifferentiatedlived correlative of praxislived/1neg, is the formalposited unity of the

ensemblelived which is to be integrated; to the interiorlived of this practical_fieldlived, the actI

attempts to carry out the most rigorous synthesisdial of the most highly

differentiateddial/lived*** multiplicity. Thus by a double movementdial/lived, multiplicity [as

totalities] multiplies itself to infinity, each partI opposesdial itself to all the others and to the

wholeI which is in the process of being formed, while the totalizinglived activityI tightens all

the bonds, making each differentiateddial elementlived/1neg both its immediate expression and

its mediationIc in connectionok [of three degrees]lived&lived as 1st&2neg to the other

elementslived/2neg. From this point on it is easy to establish the intelligibilitydial/posited of

dialectical Reasonposited/1neg; it is nothing other than the movementI of totalizationposited.

Thus, to take only one example, it is within the framework of totalizationI that the negation1

of negation2 becomes an affirmation. Within the practical_fieldI, the correlative of praxis,

every determination is negation, for praxisI, in differentiatingdial certain ensembleslived,

excludes them from the groupI formed by all the others; and the developing [en cours]

unification manifests itself all at once [à la fois] in [1] the most differentiateddial products

(including the direction of the movementI), in [2] those which are less differentiateddial

(indicating continuities, resistances, traditions, a tighter, but more superficial unity), and in

[3] the conflict between the two (which expresses the present statelived of the

‘totalizationlived’). The new negation1neg which, in determiningdial [‘that is, as limitation’] the

less differentiateddial ensemblesI, will raise them to the levelok of the others and will

necessarilyCDRdial do away with the negation2neg which was making every groupI into the

antagonist of every other. (p. 47AS) Thus it is to the interiorlived of a developing [en cours]lived

unification (which has already defined the limits of its fieldc) that a determination [‘that is,

as limitation’] can be said to be a negation and that the negation1 of negation2 is

necessarilyCDRdial an affirmationdialc. If dialectical_Reasonpositedok

c exists, then, from the

ontological point of view, it can only be a totalization_in_courseontology where this

totalizationontology took place, and, from the epistemologicalc point_of_viewdouble connection of

1st&2neg, it can only be the permeability [openness] of that totalizationlived/2neg to a knowledge

[connaissance]lived/1neg which is itself, in principlelived, totalizinglived in its procedures. ASBut

since totalizinglived knowledge [connaissance]lived cannot be thoughtlived of as attaining

ontological totalization as a new totalization of it****, dialecticallived knowledge

[connaissance]lived must itself be a momentdial of the totalizationlived, or, in other words,

totalizationlived comprehendslived within itself its own reflective [réflexive]livedc

retotalizationdial/lived as an essential structuredial/lived and as a totalizinglived process within the

process of ensemblelived."


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See Herein-[Appendix] Fredric Jameson: Sartre’s term ‘totality’ has problematic past as

hyperorganism

See Sartre\Negation-In ‘existence and tension determined by the wholedial, every particular

exists in the unity of a fundamental contradiction’, and cross-references.

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-TOTALIZATION [IN COURSE]lived; See CDR (p. 57 as ontology

below; [totalisation en cours as used in CDR pages 38, 73, 75, 76, 93, 255, 299 and The

Family Idiot 1:320. Other translators have used ‘developing totalization’AS, or ‘totalization

in process’S&A];

BN (p. 302c) "...No consciousness, not even God’s, can ‘see the underside—that is,

apprehendlived the totalitydial/lived as such. Thus no point of viewlived on the totalitydial/lived is

conceivableposited; the totalityI has no ‘outsideposited,’...";

Sartre\Phenomenology-*Hegel’s totalization;

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-RReciprocitylived, alienation, and reification as not

totalizingontology;

CDR (p. 45c) "...Each of these so called dialecticallived&posited lawsontology become

perfectly intelligiblelived&posited when seen from the point of viewlived&posited of

totalizationlived..."

(CDRp. 45c Fr. 161) "From this point of viewlived, and before taking the

discussion any further, we must make a clear distinction between the notionslived of

totalitydial/lived and totalizationlived. A totalityI, is defined as a being[-there]lived

(p. 57 as ontology, Fr. 172) "9. But our task involves more than establishing the

existence of an ontologicalc region of totalizationontology within which we are situatedlived..."

Herein-RParticipation grasps bonds of interioritylived linked to culturelived;

-R4. Critical_Expérience and Totalizationlived;

-RTotalizationlived ‘must discoverdial/lived multidimensional unity of the actlived;

-Fredric Jameson: Sartre’s term ‘totality’ has problematic past as hyperorganism

CDRII: (p. 33c) "...precisely because it is concretelivedc and reallived—totalizationlived

operatesc only through the limitations it imposesok...";

"The Itinerary of a Thought": (p. 41c) "...What I call le vécu—lived experience—is

precisely the ensemblelived of the dialecticallived process of psychic lifec, in so far as this

process is obscure to itself because it is a constant totalizationlived, thus necessarilyCDRdial a

totalizationlived which cannot be conscious of what it is...";

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-DIFFERENTIATEdial/lived [différencier];

See Sartre\Flaubert’s School Years-Bourgeois impersonations

**** Alan Sheridan-Smith’s translation of this phrase is more straightforward and replaces

that of Starr and James B. Atkinson which is: "But since it is not admissible that the

totalizingontology knowledge [connaissance]lived comes to the ontologicalontology totalization as

a new totalizationlived of the latter..."

9-14Dial 4. Critical_Expérienceposited and Totalizationlived (CDR47)

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Sartre, CDR (p. 47-8, cited from S&A 423, Fr. 164-5) "[4] Thus the dialecticlived is a

totalizinglivedR activitylived. It has no laws** other than the rules*** that are produced by the

totalizationlivedR in course; these are obviously concerned with the relationoklived&lived as 1st&2neg

between the unification and the unified22

—that is, the modes of effective presence of

becoming which totalizeslivedI those parts which are totalizedlived. (p. 48) And knowledge

[connaissance]lived—which itself is totalizingI—is the totalizationI itself, insofar as the latter

is present in certain partial structuresdial/posited of a determineddial [‘that is, as limitation’]

character. In other words, if the totalizationI is consciously presence_tolived itself, this cannot

be such that the latter [presence to itself] is the still formalposited and faceless activityI which

unifies syntheticallydial; rather, through the mediationlived of differentiated realitieslived,

totalizationlivedI unifies and effectively incarnateslived itself insofar as they [differentiated

realities] totalizeI themselves by the very movementdial/lived of the totalizingI actI. These

comments permit us to define a first characteristic of the critical_expériencelived: it makes

itself interiorlived to the totalizationI, and cannot be a contemplative***posited grasp

[transformspositedtoposited]c of the totalizingI movementI; nor can it be a singularlived and

autonomous**** totalizationlivedI of the known [connue]posited totalizationposited. Rather, it

[the first feature of the critical_expérience] is a reallived momentdial of the totalizationI in

course, insofar as this latter incarnatesI itself in all its parts, and is realizedontology/1neg&2neg as

the syntheticdial knowledge [connaissance]lived of itself through the mediationlived of certain of

these parts. In practice, this signifieslived that the critical_expériencelivedc can and should be

the reflective [réflexive]lived [critical] expériencelived of anyone at allc."

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Ftn. 22, "A few examples..."

Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-PRINCIPLE [principe]; rule and law.

Transcendence of the Ego (p. 44c)Thus the essential principleposited of

phenomenologyposited, ‘all consciousness is consciousness of something,’ is preserved..."

The Emotions (p. 10c) "...However, without giving up the idea of expérienceposited (the

principleposited of phenomenologyposited is to go to ‘things themselves’ and the basis of these

methodsposited is eidetic intuitionlived) ... it must even recognize that essenceslived alone permit

us to classify and inspect the factsposited."

BN (p. xlixc) "...The totalitydial/lived ‘object-essencelived’ makes an organized wholedial.

The essencelived is not in the object; it is the meaning of the object, the principlelived of the

series of appearanceslived which disclose it..."

(p. 187c) "...Quality is the indication of what we are not and of the mode of

being which is denied to us. The perception of white is the consciousness of the

impossibility on principleontology or the For-itselfposited/1negFr=? to exist as color—that is, by

being what it is..."

(p. 313c) "...At least we assert this in order to remain faithful to the

principleposited of inertia which constitutesBN all naturelived as exterioritylived..."

(p. 408c) "...we can never hold a consistent attitude toward the otherlived unless

he is at once [à la fois] revealedlived to us as subject and as objectI, as transcendence-

transcendinglived/1negc and as transcendence-transcendedlived/2negc—which is on principleontology

impossible..."


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Anti-Semitism and Jew: (p. 40) "...[Manichaeism] explains the course of the world by

the struggle of the principleposited of Good with the principle of Evil. Between these two

principles no reconciliation is conceivable; one of them must triumph and the other be

annihilated..."

The Family Idiot (2:6ʗ ) "... [the neurosis is] not opposed openly and attacked head on,

the nonassimilable element becomes not only an agent of detotalizationdialc, but the active

principlelived of a negative totalization, which develops in opposition to the other and

totalizes it in reverse..."

(3:186c) "...In principleposited, as I have shown elsewhere, the Egoposited/1neg

appearslived [apparaît] to the reflexive [réflexive]lived consciousness as pole X of the reflected

[réfléchie]lived, or, if you will, as the [reflected’s] transcendentlived/1neg unity of feelingslived,

stateslived, and actslived..."

CDR (p. 49ʗ ) "...Thus the universalsposited of the dialectic—principlesposited and

lawsposited of intelligibilityposited—are singularized_universalslived..."

(p. 57ʗ ) "...For if dialectical Reasonposited/1neg exists, the totalizingontology

movementdial must, at least in principleontology, be intelligibledial/posited to us everywhere and at

all times ... Instead of grasping [transform livedtolived] certain principleslived within ourselves, a

priori (that is to say, certain opaque limits of thoughtlived), we must graspI the dialecticlived in

the objectlived and comprehendlived [comprendre] it..."

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-LAW [loi]; cf. principle, rule.

Transcendence of the Ego (p. 40P) "...consciousness is purely and simply

consciousness of being consciousness of that object. This is the lawontology of its existence."

(p. 63c) "...hatredlived is not of consciousness. It overflows the instantaneousness

of consciousness, and it does not bow to the absoluteontologyc lawontology of consciousness for

which no distinction is possibleI between appearancelived [paraître] and being[-there]lived..."

BN: (p. lvc) "...PleasureI is the beingI of consciousness of selfI and this consciousness

of selfI is the lawontology of beingI of pleasureI..."

(p. xlvic) "...The essencelived of an existent is no longer a property sunk in the

cavity of this existentI; it is the manifest lawontology which presides over the succession of its

apparitionsI..."

(p. 150c, Fr. 186) "But aside from the fact that it is difficult to explain the

upsurge ex nihilo of the reflective [réflexive]lived consciousness it is completely impossible in

this way to account for its absoluteontologyc unity with the consciousness reflected-on

[réfléchi]lived, a unity which alone renders conceivable the lawsposited and the certainty of the

reflective [réflexive]lived intuitionlivedc..."

(p. 517c) "...legalI (i.e., grammatical) relations can arise between the words...

Thus it is to the interiorlived of the freeI project of the sentenceI which organizes itself as the

lawsontology of languagelived; it is by speakingI that I make grammar..."

(p. 518c) "Afterwards, it will be permissible to discoverdial/posited abstractposited

operationalc analytic_schemataposited which will be depicted as the legalposited truthposited of the

sentenceposited..."


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Search for a Method: (p. 157c) "...the problem is to find the tension extending from

objectivitylived to objectivityI, to discoverdial/lived the lawontology of expansion which

surpasses1neg one significationlived/2neg by means of the following onelived/1neg and which

maintains the second1neg in the first2neg..."

CDR (p. 20c) "...Dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg legislatesposited, it defines what the world

(human or total) must be like for dialectical knowledgeFr=? to be possibleI ..."

(p. 24c) "...As such thoughtlived is subject to the dialectic as its lawontology, just

like the historicallived process, considered either as the ensemblelived or in its details..."

(p. 35c) "...The possibilityI that a dialecticlived exists is itself dialecticalposited; or,

to put it another way, the possibleI unity of the dialecticposited as lawontology of historicallived

development and the dialecticlived as knowledge [connaissance]lived in movementdial/lived of

this development is the unity of a dialectical movementI..."

(p. 44c) "...Firstly [primary intelligibility]livedc, the dialectic itself as the

lawontology of the worldlived and of knowledge [savoir]livedc must be intelligibledial/lived..."

(p. 49c) "...Thus the universalsposited of the dialectic—principlespositedc and

lawsontology of intelligibilityposited—are singularized_universalslived..."

(p. 63c, Ftn. 26) "...But here intelligibilitylived originates in the intuitivelived/dial

grasp [transformslivedtoposited] of two contradictoryR practices (...) one1neg of which dominates

the other2neg by submitting to its lawontology.


analytical_rationalism, the dialectic is already present, even at the highest level of

abstractionlived, in the elementary but complete form of a lawontology of development and a

dialectic_schematizerlived of intelligibilitydial/lived.

The Family Idiot: (1:425c) "...But [2] interiorlived to the society or grouplived, to the

extent that its contentgrouplived [internal, below] is normative, the lawontology prescribes

actionslived rather than describing them, and presents itself—at least for those who do not

challenge the regime—as duty-beinglivedc, that is to say [c’est-à-dire] an imperative which is

not exhausted in actual behavior but is intendedlived to structuredial/lived possiblelived behavior

as well..."

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-RULElived [régle]; cf. principleposited below; cf. lawontology

above

Miscellaneous

BN: (p. 317) "...ruleslived of appearancelived, should not considered as subjectivelived and

psychological. They are strictly objectivelived and derive from the naturelived of things. If the

inkwell hides a portion of the table from melived, this does not stem from the natureI of mylived

sense be s but from the natureI of the inkwell and of light..."

Notebooks for an Ethics: (p. 96c) "...In itself, it is trueposited, logicalposited (that is,

its momentsdialc are interconnected in conformity with certain ruleslived)..."

CDR: (p. 92c) "...most people speak according to the ruleslived of

analytical_rationalityposited..."

CDR rules of the dialecticlived:


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(p. 47-8c, cited from S&A 423, Fr. 164-5) "[4] Thus the dialectic is a

totalizingontologyR activitylived. It has no ruleslived other than the rulesI that are produced by the

totalizationR in course..."

CDR (p. 61c) "...individuallived praxis is transparent to itself and ... in this

transparence, it provides the model and the ruleslived of full intelligibilitydial/lived..."

CDRII: (p. 33c) "...the eventlivedc produces its own rulelived. If this rulelived is the

art of boxing, boxers and spectators reproduce and realizeontology/1neg&2neg this art through

reallived combat, transcendinglived/1neg it by every invention and every tactical move. But this

incarnated totalization [in course], common handiwork of the participants, is never named or

thoughtlived during the operationontology..."

CDR rules of serieslived and alteritylived

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-RThus ‘this rulelived—the Reason of the series—is

common to all precisely to the extent that they differentiate themselves’

CDR (p. 255c) "In order to comprehendlived the collectivelived one must

understandpositedFr=? that this material object realizesontology/1neg&2neg [as doubly ontological]

the unity of interpenetration of individualsontology/1neg as beings[-there]-in-the-

worldontology/2neg-outside-themselves to the extent that it structuresdial/lived their connectionok

[of three degrees]lived&lived as practical_organismslived in accordance with the new rulelived of

serieslived."

CDR (p. 270P ) "...alteritylived as a rulelived of the social practico-inert field..."

The Family Idiot: (2:165c) "...recurrence is the rulelived in serialI reactions..."

CDR rules of thoughtlived; Herein-Analytical Reason as synthetic transformation of its

dialecticlived precursor, with (p. 58c) "...thoughtlived conforms to the rulelived of the

practical_organismc at every levelok when it makes itself into directed inertia in order to

actlived on inertiaI..."

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**** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CONTEMPLATEposited [contempler]; cf. comprehensionlived;

BN: (p. 435c) "...His suffering is the pure affectivec tenor of his non-positionallived

consciousness, but he does not contemplateposited it. Therefore this suffering can not be in

itself a motive for change;

(p. 436c) "It is the organized form ‘worker-finding-his-suffering-naturallived’

which must be surmounted and denied2negc in order for it to be able to form the object of a

revealinglivedc contemplationposited;

Search for a Method: (p. 156c) "...Our comprehensionlived of the otherlivedc is never

contemplativeposited, it is ... the concretelived, human_relationlived which unites us to himlived.";

CDR: (p. 47, S&A 423c) "...critical expérienceposited ... cannot be a contemplativeposited

grasp [transformslivedtoposited] of the totalizingontology movementdial/lived...";

**** See last sentence of above sub-topic.

12-13Dial Totalizationlived ‘must discoverdial/lived multidimensional unity of the actlived’

(SM108-111, out of sequence) Sartre, Search for a Method (p. 108-9P, Fr. 87) "e...a single actlived can be evaluated at

more and more complex levels ande... consequently it is expressed by a seriesI of very


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diverse significationslivede... The superimposed significationsI are isolated and enumerated by

analysisposited. The movementdial/lived which has joined them together in life is, on the

contrary, syntheticdialc. The conditioning remains the same; therefore neither the importance

of the factors nor their order is changed. But we will lose sight of human_realitylived if we

do not consider the significationsI as syntheticdial, multidimensional, indissoluble objects,

which hold individualI places in a space-time with multiple dimensions. (p. 109) The

mistake here is to reduce the lived significationsI to the simple linear statement which

languagelived gives it."

(SMp. 110-11P, Fr. 89) "e...The novelist will show us first one, then the other of these

dimensions as thoughtslived alternating in the ‘mind’ of his hero. But the novelist will be

lying. It is not thoughtslived which are involved (at least not necessarilyCDRdial), and all are

given2neg together [ensemble], not one at a time.** The manlived is locked up inside; he does

not cease to be bound by all these walls which enclose him or to know [savoir]lived that he is

immured. All of these walls make a single prison, and this prison is a single life [vie], a

singlelived. (p. 111) Each significationI is transformedlived, continues to be transformedI, and

its transformationI has repercussions on all the others. What the totalization [in course]R

must discoverdial/lived therefore is the multidimensional unity of the actI.

(SMp. 111, Fr. 89) sartre¶"Our ancient habits of thoughtlived risk oversimplifying this

unity, a condition of bothok reciprocalI interpenetration and the relative autonomy of

significationsI. The present form of languageI is hardly fit to restore it. Yet it is with these

poor means and these bad habits that we must try to render the complex, polyvalent unity of

these facets, as the dialectical lawontology of their correspondences (that is, of the

connectionsok [of three degrees]lived&lived of each onelived/1neg with each otherlived/2neg and of

each onelived/1neg with alllived/2neg). The dialecticallivedc knowing [connaissance]lived of man,

according to Hegel and Marx, demands a new rationalityc. Because nobody has been willing

to establish this rationalityI within experienceFr=?, I state as a factposited—absolutely no one,

either in the East or in the West, writes or speaks a sentence or a word about us and our

contemporaries that is not a gross error."1

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Ftn. 1, "Come now, someone will object, hasn’t anyone ever said anything trueI ? Quite the

contrary. So long as thoughtlived watches over its own movementdial/lived, all is truthlived or a

momentdial of truthI... Our present ideas are false because they have died before us..." Copied

Nietzsche\Knowledge ** Copied and see Sartre/Flaubert’s Constitution-literary vs. philosophical writing

12-13Dial 5. Critical_Expérienceposited and Actionlived (CDR49)

Sartre, CDR (p. 49, S&A 423-4, Fr. 165) "[5] But we must at once [à la fois] deepen

and delimit our terms. For when I say that the expériencepositedc must be reflexive

[réflexive]lived, I mean that, in the singularityR of its momentdial, it cannot be separated from

the ‘totalization in course’ [totalité en cours] any more than reflection [réflexion]lived can be

distinguished from human praxis. I have shown elsewhere that reflection [réflexion]lived

must not be conceived as a parasitical, separated consciousness, but as the particular

structuresdial/lived of certain ‘consciousnesses’. If a totalizationI is developing in a given2neg


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sectorok of realitylived, it must be a singularok process occurring in singularok conditions and,

from the epistemologicalc point of view, it will produce the universals which illuminate it

and singularizesc them by interiorizinglivedc them. (Indeed, all the conceptsposited forged by

historylived, including that of man, are similarly singularized_universals and have no

meaningCDR apart from this singular adventure.) The critical_expérienceposited can only be a

momentdial of this adventure, or, in other words, the totalizingontology adventure produces

itself as the critical_expérienceposited of itself at a certain momentI of its development. And

this critical_expérienceposited grasps [transformslivedtolived] the singular movementdial/livedc

through reflection [réflexion]lived, which means that it is the singular momentI in which the

actlived endows itself a reflexive [réflexive]lived structuredial/lived. Thus the universalsposited of

the dialecticposited—principlesposited and lawsontologyc of intelligibilityposited—are

singularized_universalslivedR; attempts at abstractionlived and universalizationposited would

only result in proposing schemataposited which are continually validdial/lived for that adventure

[singularized_universalsI]. Later, we shall see how far formalposited extrapolations are

conceivable (on the abstractI hypothesis that other, as yet unknownI , ontological sectorsok

are also totalizationsI); but, at any rate, such extrapolations cannot claim to be knowledges

[connaissances]lived and their only utility, if they are possiblelived, is to better discoverdial/lived

the singularity of the totalizingontology adventure where the expérienceposited takes place."

12-13Dial 6. The Problem of Stalinism [‘Anyone at all today may realizeontology [as

doubly ontological] the critical_expérience of themselvesontology/1neg as partI of the

wholedial/2neg of historical totalizationlived ... in their opposition to everything and

everyone’] (CDR49-51) Sartre, CDR (p. 49-51, cited from S&A 424-6, Fr. 165) "[6] This makes us

comprehendlivedok in what sense we should take the expression ‘anyone at all’** (n’importe

qui). If the totalization [in course] gives a momentdial of critical_consciousnesslived***, as

the necessaryCDRdial avatar of the totalizingontologyR praxislived, it goes without saying that this

momentI cannot appearlived [apparaître] at any time, or any place, whatever. (p. 50, Fr. 166)

It is conditioned, in its deep realitylived as well as in the modes of its apparitionok, by the

syntheticdial rulelived characterizing this totalizationI as well as by the prior circumstances

which it must surpass1negc and retain within itself according to that very ruleI. (CDR S&Ap. 425)

To make myselflived more easily comprehensiblelivedok, let me say that—if, as is the

hypothesis, our sector of totalizationI is human historylived—the critique of dialectical

Reasonposited/1negok cannot appearI [apparaître] before the historical_totalization****lived has

produced that singularized_universal which we call dialecticallived, that is to say [c’est-à-

dire], before it is itself posed for itself through the philosophies of Hegel and of Marx. Nor

can it [the critique of dialectical Reason] appearI [apparaître] before the [Stalinist] abuses

which have obscured the very notionlived of dialecticalposited rationality and have produced a

new schism between the praxislived and the knowledge [connaissance]lived which illuminates

it. Indeed, the Critique, in effect, takes its etymological meaningCDR and its origin from the

reallived need to separate trueontology from falsec, to set limits to the scope of totalizingontology

activitieslived in order to restore to them their validitydial/lived. In other words, the

critical_expérienceposited***** could not take place in our historylived before Stalinist


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idealism had rigidified at once [à la fois] epistemologicalI practices and epistemologicalI

methodsposited. It can take place only as the intellectual expression of the ‘putting back in

order’ which, in this ‘one worldlived’ of ours, characterizes the post-Stalinist period. Thus

when we discoverdial/lived that anyone at all may realizelived the critical_expérienceposited, this

does not signifylived at any period of this enterprise be it so indeterminate. We are talking

about anyone at all today. What, then, does this ‘anyone at all’ mean? We

understandpositedok through these words any one humanI life whatever, if the historical

totalization must be able to exist, is the directposited and indirectlived expression of the

wholedial (the totalizingI movementdial/lived) and of every lifeI, to the exact extent to which this

one life [without ideology or defenses, i.e., without judgments] opposes itself to everything

and everyone. Consequently, in any life whatever (but more or less explicitly, depending

upon the circumstances) the totalizationI realizesI the divorce between the [Stalinist] blind

and principleposited-less Praxisontology/1neg and the rigidified thoughtlived, or, in other words, that

obscuring of the dialecticlived which is a momentdial of the totalizinglived activitylived and of the

worldlived. By this contradiction—lived through in uneasiness and sometimes heart-

rending—the totalizationI ordains for everyone, as his individuallived future [avenir]lived, the

re-evaluation of his intellectual toolsok; this represents, in effect, a new momentdial, more

detailed, integrated, and rich, of the humanI adventure. In fact we see today the birth of

numerous attempts—all interesting and all (including, of course, the present one)

debatable—to questionok the dialecticposited about itself. And this means not only that the

origin of the critical expérienceposited is itself dialectical, but also that the apparitionok in each

reflective [réflexive]lived and critical consciousnesslived defines itself as an individuallived

attempt to grasp [transformslivedtolived], through one’s own reallived life (conceived as an

expression of the wholeI), the momentdial of historical totalization. (CDRp. 51, S&A p. 426, Fr.

167) Thus in its most immediate and superficial character, the critical expérienceposited of

totalizationI is the very life of the investigator, insofar, as this life criticizes itself reflectively

[réflexivement]lived. In abstractlived terms this means that only a man living inside a sector of

totalizationI may graspIok the interiorlived bonds which unite him with the totalizinglived

movementdial/lived."

@got movement to here

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-ANYONE AT ALL, 4 hits, all in this sub-topic or below;

CDR: (p. 48c) "...[the first moment of critical expériencelived] is a reallived momentdial of

the totalizationlived in course, insofar as this latter embodies itself in all its parts, and is

realizedlived, through the mediationlived of certain of these partsI, as the syntheticdial

knowledge [connaissance]lived of itself. In practice, this signifieslived that the critical

expérienceposited can and should be the reflective [réflexive]lived [critical] expériencelived of

anyone at all.";

Herein-R H02-1 [below] 7. The Problem of the Individuallived [Individual

accedence to the dialectic]

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CRITICAL_CONSCIOUSNESSlived; only 2 hits both above; cf.

critical_expérienceposited [below], criticalposited


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**** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-HISTORICAL_TOTALIZATIONlived; at bookmark.

***** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CRITICAL_EXPÉRIENCElived; cf. expérienceposited

[critical=evaluated expérience]; cf. Herein-critical_reflexion [réflexion]lived, -critical,

critical_consciousnesslived [above]

CDR: (p. 48c, under ‘ANYONE AT ALL,’ above); Herein-RH02-1[below] 7. The Problem

of the Individuallived [Individual accedence to the dialectic]

(p. 70c, Fr. 184) "The linkok of our critical_expérienceposited is none other than

the fundamental identityposited between an singular life and human historylived (or, from the

methodological point_of_viewdouble connection of 1st&2neg, the ‘reciprocitylived of their

perspectives’). Strictly speaking, the identityposited of these two totalizinglived processes must

be provedI. But in factposited critical_expérienceposited proceeds from exactly this hypothesis

and each momentdial of the regression (and later, of the progression) directly puts it

[critical_expérience] into question.

CDRII: (p. 49c) "Thus we can and should say, at the end of this critical

expérienceposited, that each struggle is a singularizationc of all the circumstances of the social

ensemblelived in movementdial/lived; and that, by this singularizationIc, it incarnates the

totalization [in course]-of-envelopment which is the historicallived process...";

1-14Dial 7. The Problem of the Individuallived [Individual accedence to the dialectic]

(CDR51-2) Sartre, CDR (p. 51-2, S&A 426-7, Fr. 167) "[7]... we are not trying to reconstruct the

reallived historylived of the humanlived species; rather, we are attempting to establish the

Truthposited/1neg of Historyposited/1neg. (p. 52) Hence, it is a question of the

critical_expériencepositedR being brought to bear upon the naturelived of the links of

interioritylived (if they exist) starting from the human_relationslived [i.e., ‘each individual’s

praxis in its practical structure and for the sake of the completion of its project, recognizes

the praxis of the otherI’] which define the investigator. (CDR S&Ap. 427) If he is to be

totalizedlived by Historyposited/1neg, what is important here is to relivelived hislived affiliations

with humanI ensembleslived of different structuresdial/lived, and to determinedial [‘that is, as

limitation’] the realitylived of these ensemblesI, through the links that constitutedial/group them

and the practices that define them. And to the very extent that he, personallylived, is the lived

mediationlived between these heterogeneous ensembleslived (as, also, is any individuallivedR

whatever), his critical_expérienceposited must discoverdial/lived if this mediatingI bondok is itself

an expression of the totalization [in course]. In a word, the experimentalist must, if the unity

of Historyposited/1neg exists, grasp [transformslivedtoposited] his own lifelived as the

Wholeposited/2negok and the Partposited/1neg

ok, as the linkok between the PartsIok and the WholeI

ok,

and as the connectionok [of three degrees]posited&posited of the PartsIok among themselves, in the

dialecticalposited movementdial/posited of unification. He must be able to make the leap from

hislived own singular lifelived to Historyposited/1neg, by the simple practical negation1 of that

negation2 which determines [‘that is, as limits’] it. From this point of view, the sequence of

the expérienceposited is now clearly apparentlived [apparaît] to us: it must be regressiveposited,

inverting the syntheticdial movementdial/lived of the dialecticposited as methodposited (that is,

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inverting the Marxist movementposited of thoughtposited which goes from production and

relationsI ok of production to the structuresdial/posited of the groupsposited, then to the interiorI

contradiction of the latter, then to the milieu and, should the occasion arise, to the

individualposited), the critical_expérienceposited will start out from the immediate, that is, from

the individualI attaining himself in his abstractposited praxis23

to rediscoverdial/posited, through

deeper and deeper conditioning, the totalitydial/posited of his practical linksok with othersposited,

through the same structuresdial/posited of the diverse practical_multiplicitiesposited and, through

the contradictions and struggles among these, the concreteposited absoluteontology:

historicalposited man. That is tantamount to saying that the individualposited—the questioner

who is questionedI—is myselfposited and this is no personok. There remains the link between

collectivitieslived and groupslived: through the lived [vécue] joiningok of affiliations we shall

grasp [transformlivedtolived]—in this self which is disappearing [disparaît]—the dynamic

relationsok [of three degrees]lived&lived as 1st&2neg of the different social structuresdial/lived insofar

as they are transforming1neg themselves through Historyposited/2neg..."

------------------------------------------------- CDRFtn, 23. "I take ‘abstractlived’ here in the sense of ‘incomplete.’ From the point of view of

his singular realitylived, the individuallived is not abstractI (one might say that he is the

concretelived itself), but on condition that more and more profound determinations [‘that is,

as limitation’] have been discovereddial/lived which constitutedial/group him in his very existence

as an historicallived agent, and, at the same time [simultaneity in part/whole contradiction], as

a product of Historyposited/1neg."

Ref Herein-R[above] anyone at all

1-14Dial 8. TotalizationI and History [the past] (CDR53-57)

Sartre, CDR (p. 53) "[8] But we have neglected a crucial dimension of the

critical_expérienceposited: the pastR..."

1-14Dial Participation grasps [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] bonds of interioritylived

linked to culturelived (CDR54) Sartre, CDR (p. 54, Fr. 169) sartre¶ "But if Historyposited/1neg is a totalization [in course]

which temporializesCDR itself, culture**lived is itself a temporalizingCDR and

totalized_temporalizationR, despite the ‘disparateness’ which characterizes my knowledges

[connaissances]lived and perhaps the knowledges [connaissances]lived in general, within the

objectivelived culturelived of this century. It is precisely this which itself must decide at first

whether dialecticalposited expérienceposited is or is not possibleI . If, in effect, we suppose for

an instant its possibilityI we right away [aussitôt] see that mylived culturelived cannot be

given2neg as a subjectivelivedc accumulation of knowledges [connaissances]lived and

methodsposited ‘in mylived mind’; instead, this culture which I call mineI must be conceived as

a specific participation in interioritylivedR in the objectiveI culturelived. And instead of melived

being[-there]lived a certain social atom which itself defines the culturallived possibilitiesI , this

participation defines melived (under a certain spirit). As soon as I reflexively

[réflexivement]livedc grasp [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] this bondok of interioritylived which

links melived to the cultural totalization [in course]R, I disappear as a cultivated


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individuallivedok to manifest myselflived as the syntheticdial bond between everyone1neg and

what might be called the cultural field2neg. And this joining [liaison] will itself appearlived

[apparaîtra] in all its complexity (relationoklived&lived as 1st&2neg of the wholedial [everyone] with

the wholeI [cultural field] through my mediationlived, opposition of the wholeI with the part

and [the part] with the wholeI, oppositionI between some partsI and the partI and the wholeI,

etc.). Moreover—still on the hypothesis that dialectical expérienceposited is possibleI —this

very bond makes access to the Cultureposited/1negok itself as totalizationI and temporalizationIR.

In this way, I find myselflived dialecticallylived conditioned through the totalizedpositedR and

totalizingontology past of the process of human development: as a ‘cultured’ manlived (...) I

totalizelived myselflived on the basis of centuries of one historylived and, through the measure of

mylived culturelived, I totalizeI this expérienceposited. This signifieslived that my life itself is

centuries old, since the schemata which permit me to comprehendlived ok, to modify and to

totalizeI my practical undertakings (...) have passed through the actual (present in their

effects and passedI in their completed historylived). In this sense, diachronic [in its human

depth] evolution is actual (in so much as passed—and, as we shall see later, as future

[future]lived) through the synchronic [‘ensemblelived of the present’] totalization [in course];

their bonds of one and the other are of interioritylived and, through the same measure to

which critical_expérienceposited is possibleI , the temporalCDRI depth of the totalizingI

adventure revealslived itself from the momentdial in which I reflexively [réflexivement]lived

interpret the operations of my singular life [vie]."

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See Sartre\Political Scarcity-Dialecticlived ‘of precious metals in the Mediterranean worldI

transformslived praxisI into antipraxisI—praxisI without an author’ (CDR166)

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CULTURElived;

Search for a Method: (p. 3c, Fr. 19) "e...a philosophy constitutesI itself by giving its

expression to the general movementI of the society. So long as a philosophy is alive, it

serves as a culturallived milieu for its contemporaries. This disconcerting object [philosophy]

presents itself at once [à la fois] under profoundly distinct aspects which it operates in

continual unification."

CDR: as above and sub-topic belowR;

(p. 54c) "...Supposing, for a momentdial, that it [dialectic experience] is possibleI ,

it is right away [aussitôt] clear that mylived culturelivedc cannot be treated as a subjectivelived

accumulation of knowledges [connaissances]lived and methodsposited ‘in mylived mind’; instead,

this culturelived which I call minelived must be conceived as a specific participation in

interioritylived in the objectivelived culturelived..."

(p. 55c) "...the first use of culturelived must be in the unreflectedc contentgroup of

critical_reflexion [réflexion]lived, to the extent that its [the unreflected’s] first attained

synchronisms [ensembleslived of the culture’s presence_to critical_reflexion] is through the

present individuallived..."

The Family Idiot: Sartre\Flaubert’s Neurosis-The ‘objective_Spiritontology/1neg—in a

defined society, in a given2neg era—is nothing more than Cultureposited/1neg as practico-inert’

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1-14Dial We regressivelyI use the unreflectedlived content of critical_reflexion

[réflexion]lived on the wholedial of contemporary knowledgeposited to elucidate commonI

praxisI (CDR55) Sartre, CDR (p. 55, Fr. 170) "Of course, the individuallived is here only the

methodologicalposited point of departure, and his short life soon becomes diluted in the

pluridimensional human ensemblelived which temporalizes_its_totalizationCDRR and

totalizes_its_temporalizationCDRR. To the extent that its [the methodological-point-of-

departure’s] singular_universals are perpetually aroused—in mylived immediate as well as my

reflective [réflexive]lived life—and, from the depths of the past in which they were

actualized, give the keys and the ruleslived of mylived conducts, we must be able, in our

regressive expérienceposited, to make use of the wholedial of actual knowledge [savoir]lived (at

least in principleposited) to elucidate such or such an enterprise, such a social ensemblelived,

such a avatar of praxis. In other words, the first use of cultureR must be in the unreflected

[irréfléchi]lived contentconsc of critical_reflexion** [réflexion]lived, to the extent that its

[critical_reflexion’s] first attained synchronisms [‘ensembleslived of the present’] are through

the present individuallived. Far from assuming, as certain philosophers have done, that we

may know [sachions]lived nothing, we ought as far as possibleI (though it is impossible) to

suppose that we know [savon]lived the wholedial. In every case, we accept the wholesI of

knowledges [connaissances]lived in order to decipher the human ensembleslived which

constitutedial/group the individuallived and which the individualI totalizes by the very style in

which he lives theme...[remainder of paragraph critiques ‘assuming we know nothing’]"

(CDRp. 55-6, Fr. 171) "Within our expérienceposited, on the contrary, we will make use

of everything that comes to hand because, in a singular life, each praxis uses the wholedial of

culturelived and makes itself at once [à la fois] synchronic***alived (in the ensemblelived of the

present) and diachronic***blived (in its humanlived depth); and because our expérienceposited is

itself a culturalposited factpositede... [I]f we are trying to grasp [transformsposited/2negtoposited/1neg]

formalposited bonds (for example any kind of bonds of interioritylived) between individualslived

or groupslived, to study the different forms of practical_multiplicities and the kinds of

interrelations in these multiplicities, the best example is the clearest provided by culturelived

regardless of date. In other words, the dialecticlived is not the culmination of

Historyposited/1negc; it can only exists as the original movementdial/lived of totalization [in

course]lived. (CDRp. 56) Of course, the dialecticlived must in the first instance be the immediate,

simple lived [vécue] praxis, and, in so far as it actslived upon itself in the course of time so as

to totalizeI itself, it discloses itself and progressivelyR mediateslived itself through

critical_reflexion [réflexion]lived. But for this [critical_]reflexion [réflexion]lived, the

immediate no longer existsI, by definition, it is in question in either the present or past

praxisI. The former [presentI praxis], contemporary with the critical_expérienceposited , gives

a reflexive [réflexive]lived structuredial/lived at the momentdial of its constitutiondial/group; the

latter [past praxis], precisely because it has been preserved (at least vestigially) or

reconstituteddial/group, is already mediated when it is brought to light: in this case reflexive

[réflexive]lived scissiparity becomes a kind of distantiation. But a reflexive_critique

[réflexive]lived makes partI of what we shall call reconstitutingI praxis (that of the historian

or the ethnographer); and reconstitutingI praxisI—in so far as it effects reconstitutionI—is


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inseparably linked to reconstitutedI praxisI. (It constructs past realitylived, that is to say

surpassed1neg, by finding it again through the presentlived surpassingI which preserved it; and

it is itself constructed by this resuscitated past which transformslived it to the measure it

restores it.) Furthermore, in fact, as a surpassedI pastI, the reconstitutedI praxisI is

necessarilyCDRdial partI of our presentI praxislived as its diachroniclived depth. Thus, the

reflexive [réflexive]lived critique becomes critical and quasi-reflexive [réflexive]lived

knowledge [connaissance]lived, below when it seeks its examples and its clarifications in the

objectivelived culturelivedI. And let us not forget that the choicec of social memories defines at

once [à la fois] the actual praxis (in so far as it motivates this choiceI) and social memory in

so far as it has produced our praxisI along with its characteristic choiceI.

(CDRp. 56-7, Fr. 172) "Within these conditions, reflexive [réflexive]lived

expérienceposited and quasi-reflexive [réflexive]lived knowledge [connaissance]lived, above] are

completely homogeneous in bringing to light the syntheticdial bondsok of Historyposited/1neg.

The sameok contentgroup of these bondsI, through its materiality, can be used to distinguish

and to differentiate: it must be recognized that a friendship in Socrates’ time has neither the

same meaningCDR nor the same functionsposited as a friendship today. But through this same

differentiationI, which rigorously excludes any belieflived in ‘human_natureposited’, we only

throw more light of day on the syntheticdial bondI of reciprocitylived (which will in any case

be described below) which is a singular_universal and the very foundation of all

human_relationslived. Bearing in mind these precautions, it will be sufficient to chooselived

the best examples of this fundamental reciprocitylived from the past which we did not live

[vécu], but which nevertheless, through the medium of cultureI, is ours through and through.

It is not the questionI of, in effect, rewriting the humanlived adventure, but of making

critical_expériencelived of bonds of interioritylived, or, in other terms, of grasping

[transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] quite ordinary, undertakings, @ structuresdial and reallived

eventslived. But moreover whatever the response to this questionI of principleposited: within

the humanI adventure what is the respective role of relationsoklived&lived as 1st&2neg of

interioritylived and exterioritylivedc? (p. 57) And if this total expérienceposited—which can be

summed up as that of my wholeI lifeI [vie] in so far as it [my expérienceI] is dissolved in the

wholedial of, and of the wholeI of Historyposited/1neg in so far as it [my expérienceI] is

concentrated in an entire lifeI [vie]—establishes that the bond of exterioritylived

(analyticalposited and positivist_Reason) is itself interiorizedlived by practical_multiplicities,

and that it [my expérienceI] actslived within them (as a historicallived force) only to the extent

that it becomes an interiorI negation of interioritylived, we will find ourself situated, through

the investigationI [recherche] itself, at the heart of a totalization [in course].

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CRITICAL_REFLEXION [réflexion]lived cf. Herein-

critical_expérience

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***a 10-09Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-SYNCHRONIClived and ***b-DIACHRONIC

lived; [Sartre’s

above parenthesis for synchronic (ensemblelived of the present) and for diachronic(in its

human depth) is appended respectively to each occurrence of these terms;


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CDRII: (p. 18-9c) "... temporalizing_totalizationdial/livedc ... signifieslived the wholedial

evening [of boxing] as it is about to unfold... [I]t has its totalizinglived connectionlived&lived

[rapport] [of three degrees] as a partlived/1neg of the wholeI lived/2neg by virtue of the factposited

(impossible to ignore) that it is the beginning. (p. 19) Thus the diachroniclived synthesisdial/lived

(living hierarchy that gradually becomes established) is at once [à la fois] a reallived product

of the synchroniclived synthesisI (the organizers have chosenlived the bouts on the basis of the

hexis and reputation of the fighters) and the retotalizing_temporalizationdial/lived of the

synchroniclived hierarchy.";

Peter Caws: Sartre (p. 145) "...the idea of ‘totalization’ in Being and Nothingness e...

is a momentary or synchroniclived activity—being[-there]lived stands over against the for-

itselflived as the totalitydial/lived of all that the for-itselfI is not, because the for-itselflived posits

itself as all that being[-there]lived is not, as the ‘detotalizationdial’ of this totalityI (BN 181). In

Search for a Method and more explicitly in the Critique a lived or diachronic component is

added and becomes dominant; also, as is to be expected, the totalizingI relationI is no longer

between a simple for-itselfIlived/1neg and the totalityIlived/2neg of its immediate world but holds

within a social context as the culmination of a historicallived process... [H]ere it is no longer a

matter of my realizingontology/1neg&2neg that Iontology/1neg am not the wholeontology/2neg of being[-

there], but of my realizingI that Iontology/1neg am not the wholeontology/2neg of any collective of

which I form a part, that the totalitylived is, as it were, distributed among the elements that are

united into it."

1-14Dial 9. Primarylived and Secondaryposited Intelligibility (CDR57-64)

Sartre, CDR (p. 57, Fr. 172) "9. But our task involves more than establishing the

existence of an ontologicalc region of totalizationontology within which we are situated. For if

dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg existsI, the totalizingontology movementdial/posited rather than livedc

must, at least in principlepositedc, be intelligibledial/posited to us everywhere and at all times.

(Sometimes the power of the information we arrive at may not be sufficient to make an

eventlived accessible to us; but, even if this were frequent, intelligibilityI in principleposited

would still have to be guaranteed by our expérienceposited.) This is a matter of

secondary_intelligibilitydial/posited**.

(CDRp. 57, Fr. 172, my paragraph break) sartre¶Primary_intelligibilitydial/lived***, if it is

to be possibleI , that is to say, if there is such a thing as a totalizing_temporalizationdial/livedc—

must, as we have seen****, consist in reducing the lawsontology of the dialecticposited to

momentsdial of the totalizationI. Instead of grasping [transformslived/2negtoposited/1neg] for

principlespositedc within ourselves, a prioric (that is to say, for opaque limits of thoughtposited),

we must graspI [transformslived/1negtolived/2neg] the dialecticc in the object and comprehendlivedok

it—to the same extent that each of us, individuallylived/1negok and the wholedial of human

historylived, produceslived/2neg it from this double_point_of_viewdouble connection as 1st&2neg and is

subject to itlived/1neg in producing itlived/2neg—as the totalizingontology movementdial/lived.

(CDRp. 57, my paragraph break) sartre¶But that which we name

secondary_intelligibilitydial/posited is not the transluciditydial of dialectical_Reasonposited: it is

the intelligibilitydial/posited of partial momentsdialok of the totalizationI favoring the

totalization_itself_in_its_temporalizationlivedc, that is to say, through the critical application


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of a dialectic_schematizerlivedc. (p. 58) We have seen that dialectical_Reasonposited, when

applied to the sciences of Natureposited/1neg, cannot be ‘constituteddial/group’: in other words, it

is no more than the empty ideaok of totalizationI projected [projetée] beyond the strict and

quantitative lawsontology established by positivist Reasonok. Within the totalizationI where we

are and which we are, however, dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg must prove its constant

superiority for the intelligenceok of historicalposited factsposited: it must dissolve the positivistI,

analyticalposited interpretation to its own totalizingI activitylived; it must reveallived certain

structuresdial/lived, connectionslived&lived [rapport] [of three degrees] and meaningsCDR which

necessarilyCDRdial elude all positivismI. [my paragraph break]"

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-SECONDARY INTELLIGIBILITYdial/posited; cf.

intelligibilitydial/lived; no relation to secondary_mode

CDR: (p. 44c) "...Secondly [secondary intelligibility], if some reallived factposited—a

historicallived process, for example—develops dialecticallyposited, the lawontology of its

apparitionok and its becoming must be—from the stand-point of Knowledge

[Connaissance]posited/1negc—the pure ground of its intelligibilityposited...";

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-PRIMARY INTELLIGIBILITYdial/lived; cf. point of view; cf.

intelligibilitydial/posited; no relation to primary_mode;

Herein-RH11-1Negation, ‘in the actlived of denial creates a provisional

totalitydial/lived; it is totalizingontology before being partial’

CDR (p. 44c) "...if the dialecticposited is the reason of Beingposited/1neg and of Knowledge

[Connaître]posited/1neg, at least in certain regionsI, it must manifest itself as double

intelligibilitylived&posited. Firstly [primary intelligibility]livedc, the dialectic itself as the

lawontologyc of the worldlived and of knowledge [savoir]livedc must be intelligibleIlived; that is to

say [c’est-à-dire], the contrary to positivist_Reason, to include in itself its proper

intelligibilitylived. In the second place [secondary intelligibilitydial/posited]c, if some reallived

fact—for example a historicallived process—develops itself dialectically, the lawontology of its

apparitionlivedok and of its becoming must be—from the point of viewposited of Knowledge

[Connaissance]posited/1negc—the pure foundation of its [secondary] intelligibilitydial/posited. For

the present, we are concerned only with original [primary] intelligibilitydial/lived. This

[primary] intelligibilitydial/lived [is] the transluciditydialc of the dialecticlived...";

(p. 61c) "...original [primary] intelligibilitydial/lived, for the practical_agentc is

transparent to himself as the unifying unity of himself and his environment. In this sense,

the new is immediately intelligibledial/lived to him in activitylived itself...";

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**** Herein-RWe regressively use the unreflected content of critical_reflexion

[réflexion]lived on the wholedial of contemporary knowledge to elucidate common_praxis

1-14Dial Dialectical_‘Reasonposited/1neg as absoluteontology intelligibilityontology of

irreducibly new’—an example (CDR58) Sartre, CDR (p. 58, Fr. 173, my paragraph break) sartre¶Moreover, in the limiting case

of perfect information, the eventlived itself must become transparent, that is to say, it must


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reveallived itself as accessible only to dialectical_Reasonposited.** This means that the

movementdial/lived by which totalizingontology agents, in transcendinglived/1neg their

contradictions, produce new and irreducible momentsdial of the totalization [in course] must

present itself to us at once [à la fois] as realitylived and as elucidation. In other words, if there

is to be any such thing as dialectical_Reasonposited it must be defined as the absoluteontology

intelligibilitydial/ontology of the irreducibly new, in so far as it is irreducibly new. It is the

contrary of the positivist analytical enterprise of explaining new factsposited by reducing them

to old onese... But precisely it is manlived who brings novelty into the worldlived: it is his

praxislived (at the level of perceptionposited: colors, odors) which, through the partial or total

reorganization of the practical_field, produces a new instrumentlived in the new unity of its

appearancelivedok and functionposited; it is the praxisI of users which, coordinated with that of

producers, will maintain the instrument in the human worldI and, through use, link together

its so-called ‘elements’ in such a way as to preserve its irreducibility, in relationI [pour] to

menlived."

Sartre The Family Idiot (1:27c) "...As for Totalitiesdial/lived ... they are never designated,

meaningCDR that they always involve new experiencesFr=? which escape previous nomination

and do not necessarilyCDRdial—or even very often—produce the word or sentence that best

suits them."

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** See its example in Sartre\Intelligibility of History-Eventslived ‘totalizeI the practical

ensemblelived in the richness of its singularityI’ (CDRII17)

1-14Dial Analytical_Reasonposited as syntheticdial transformationlived of its

dialecticposited precursor (CDR58) Sartre, CDR (p. 58-9, Fr. 174) sartre¶"‘Human_realitylived’ is a synthesisdial at the level of

techniques, and at the level of that universal technique which is thoughtlived**a&b. This we

know [savons]lived. We also know [savons]lived—and I will show better—that

analytical_Reasonposited/1neg***1 [analytic, analytical_rationality] is a syntheticI

transformationlivedR1 to which thoughtlived intentionallylived affect’slived itself: this thoughtlived

must make itself a thing and govern itself in exterioritylivedc to become the naturallivedc milieu

in which the objectlived under consideration defines itself in itself, as conditioned through

exteriorityI. In this, as we shall see in detail, thoughtlived obeys the rulelivedR of the

practical_organismc to the wholeontology/2neg of its levelsok when it makes itselfontology

[realizeontology below] directposited inertia to actlived on inertiaI. (CDRp. 59, Fr. 174) But, at the

same time [même temps] as thoughtlived makes itself the objectI of this metamorphism,

thoughtlived directsI and realizesontology [as doubly ontological project1neg and situation2neg]

this metamorphism in joiningok with the inertI system it is hoping to study. Thoughtlived

becomes the lawontology of bodies in motion (at first as an indeterminate schema and to

become this specific lawI), or the ruleI of chemical combination (as the simple, a priori

certainty that such combinations cannot be totalizations [in course]). Thus analytical

Reason, as a pure, universal analytic_schemaposited of naturalposited lawsontology, is reallylived

only the result of a syntheticI transformationlivedR2 or, so to speak, a certain practical

momentdial of dialectical_Reasonposited: this latter, like animal-toolsc, uses its organicc powers


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to make certain sectors of itself into a quasi inorganic residue deciphering the inertI through

its own inertiaIe... [A]ll praxis (and consequently all knowledge [connaissance]lived) must

unify molecular dispersal (either by constructing a tool, or by unifying social multiplicity

within a grouplived by interiorizinglived it). Thus the sciences of Natureposited/1negc are

analyticalposited with respect to their content, whereas scientific thoughtlived is at once [à la

fois] analyticalI in its particular procedures and syntheticdial/livedc through its profound

intentions."

(CDRp. 59-60, Fr. 175) "But if totalizationI exists, it would be wrong to believelived that

organizing and creative thoughtlived could be in itself an unintelligibleposited factposited about

the humanlived species, nor would I say some kind of unconscioius activitylived

discovereddial/lived only through the methodsposited and the knowledges [connaissances]lived of

the naturalpositedc sciences. To comprehendlived a demonstrated mathematical or experimental

proof is to comprehendI the same procedure of the thoughtlived and its orientation. In other

words, it is to grasp [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] at once [à la fois] the analyticalI

necessityCDRdial of the calculations (as a system of equivalences, and so as the reduction of

change to zero [irrducibility, below]) and the syntheticdial orientation of these equivalences

towards the establishment of new knowledge [connaissance]lived (CDRp. 60) In effect, even if

a reduction of the new to the old, got through rigorous demonstration, the apparitionlivedok of

proved knowledge [connaissance]lived, where before there was only a vague hypothesis

which at any rate lacked Truthposited/1neg, must appearlived [apparaître] as an irreducible

novelty in the order of Knowledge [Savoir]posited/1neg and its practical applications. And, if

there could be no entire intelligibilitydial/posited of this irreducibility [of change to zero,

above], there could be neither any consciousness of its aim nor any graspingI

[transformsposited/2negtoposited/1neg] of the advancing progress of the demonstration (on the part

either of the learned who invented the expérienceposited or of the student who undertook the

risk). Thus, naturalposited science has the same structuredial/posited as a machine: it is governed

by a totalizingposited thoughtposited which enriches it, invents its applications, and at the same

time, the unity of its movementdial/posited (which is accumulation) totalizesI for menposited,

ensemblesposited and systems of a mechanical order. Interiorityposited exteriorizesposited itself

in order to interiorizeI exteriorityI.

Laing and Cooper, Reason and Violence (p. 102) "Analytic-positive reason cannot

make the dialectic intelligible, but analytic-positive reason can be understood in terms of

dialectical reason. The validity of dialectical reason rests on its own translucency. It cannot

be validated by any other form of reason, for the ‘principles’ of dialectical reason do not fall

within the framework of any other form of reason—they are not ‘laws’, simple ‘givens’, or

inducted rules, or categories."

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See Herein-2. Scientific and Dialecticallived Reason

Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-INSTRUMENTS_OF_THOUGHTlived [...pensée]; 5 hits in our files;

see below thoughtlived;

CDR: Herein-1. The Basis of Critical_Expérience, with CDR (p. 42c) "...the problem

of a totalizingontology expérienceposited ... must present itself in its technical particularity, detail

the instruments_of_thoughtlived it employs, outline the concretelived system it will constituteI


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(that is to say, the structuraldial realitylived which will be exteriorizedlived in its experimental

practice)..."

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**a Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-THOUGHTlived [pensée]; cf. thinklived below; [See

*capitalization]; see Herein-instruments of thoughtlived above;

The Psychology of Imagination: Sartre\Imagination-RWe ‘can never perceivelived a

thoughtlived nor thinklived a perceptionposited’ (PI 8)

Search for a method: Sartre\being-there-The Family Idiot: ‘Reflection shapes lived

experiencelived according to its own ends,’ with (p. 151c) "...It is neither a willI nor a need nor

a passion, but our needsI—like our passions or like the most abstractlived of our thoughtslived

participate in this structuredial. They are always outside of themselves toward..."

CDR: above, ‘thoughtlived ... makes itself into directed inertia in order to actlived on

inertia;

(p. 58c) "...thoughtlived must make itself a thing and govern itself in

exterioritylived to become the naturallived milieu in which the objectlived under consideration

defines itself in itself, as conditioned in exteriorityI..."

(p. 223c) "...Thus the syntheticdial, royal road to comprehensionlivedc, in the

domain of thoughtlived, is a syntheticI advance which is given2neg negatively, as incapable of

being[-there]lived otherwise, through the positive consciousness of making oneself all that

one can be...";

Herein-R5. ThoughtI , BeingI , and TruthI in Marxism;

-RThoughtlived must discoverdial/lived its own necessityCDRdial in its material object

and the material object’s necessityI in itself as material;

Sartre\Phenomenology-R1-43. Hegelian Dogmatism [CDR];

Sartre\Negation-RWholedial and part: Four possible dialecticlived structures

[1972];

The Family Idiot: Language&Comprehension-Languagelived ‘is melived and I am

languageI’: How can we chooselived the spoken word unless it is the wordI itself?, with The

Family Idiot (1:12c) "...[t]houghtlived, then, is neither one nor another part of the serieslived—

as if a particular expression ought to be privileged a priori; nor is it a capricious and

transcendentlived/1neg option—how can we chooseI the spoken word unless it is the wordI

itself? Rather, thoughtlived is at once the totalitydial/lived of the serieslived—that is to say [c’est-

à-dire] the differential relationsoklived&lived as 1st&2neg that link together various expressions—

and a distinct figurelived/1neg on groundlived/2neg of the totalized serieslived of those expressions

that seems best adapted to the present situationI...";

(1:109c, no ce) "...When thoughtlived—which is stubborn, original, activelived—

becomes creativec, it must be explained by other reasons sought in other instances..."

(1:152c, ce) "..Thoughtlived appearslived [apparaît] at once [à la fois] to both

speakers as the objectI itself before them—this tree, this crack in the wall, this chair—and as

the activelived and practical exfoliation of that objectI with respect to the totalitydial/lived of the

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(5:36c) "...the first seed of a political attitude of refusal. On this level all

thoughtlived is given2neg but it is not posed for itself, and so in its extreme compressionlivedc it

escapes verbalposited elaboration..." [thought here could be lived];

(5:225c) "...(I have shown above that thoughtlived is born as a momentdial of

praxis at the level of work that it graspsc [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] the worldlived through

the tool, in other words that the modec of production is an immediate and fundamental

structuredial of perceptionpositedc.)";

L’Arc, no. 30, Paris, 1966c, "There was a time when thoughtlived was defined

independently of languagelived, as something intangible and ineffable that préexists

expression. Today people fall into the opposite error. They would have us believelived that

thoughtlived is only languageI, as if languageI itself were not spokenI..." (cited from Peter

Caws, "Sartre’s Structuralism", p. 299)

"On The Idiot of the Family": (p. 113c) "...In other words, it is a thoughtlived that

carries time within itself..."

Politics and Literature: Sartre\Negation-RWholedial and part: Four possible

dialecticlived structures;

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**b Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-THINKlived; cf. thoughtlived above; [no links in Flaubert]; See

below serial_thinking

Sartre\Imagination-R1-3We ‘can never perceivelived a thoughtlived nor thinklived a

perceptionposited

The Psychology of Imagination (p. 10c, Fr. 18) "...But I can thinklived of the concreteI

essenceslived in a singleI [seul, alone] actlived of consciousness; I do not have to reestablish

appearancesposited, I have no apprenticeshipposited to serve..."

The Family Idiot (5:204c) "...To thinklived is not to put ourselves in question but to

condemn ourselvesI to discoverdial/lived sooner or later, directlyposited or indirectlylived, that

being[-there]lived put into question is the practical foundation of our being[-there]I..."

serial_thinkinglived: Scarcity-Worker’s rejection of conditions occurs in actionlived, not

in thoughtlived, with "The Maoists in France," (p. 167c, ce) "...But as soon as concretelived

actionposited calls for unification—even if it is only temporary—serial_thinkingc no longer

has a place, because the grouplivedc can never thinklived or act in a serialposited way..." noether,

emmy

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***1 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-ANALYTIC, ANALYTIC_RATIONALITY, ANALYTIC_REASON;

cf. analytic_thoughtlived, positivism, rationalitydial/posited

analyticposited

BN: (p. 463c, Fr. 507) "...Thus we are always wholly presentlived to ourselveslived; but

precisely because we are wholly presentI, we can not hope to have an analyticalposited and

detailed consciousness of what we are..."

CDR: (p. 62c, Ftn. 26) The child or the untutored man will grasp

[transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] this truthlived on the basis of the circle itself; he will say of the

line drawn on the blackboard: since it enters the circle it must come outontology. A

mathematician will not be satisfied with this naive evidencedial/lived: he requires a

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demonstratione... demonstration is analyticposited whereas the intuitive evidenceI which I have

described is dialecticallived.

Sartre\Political Scarcity-RAnalysisposited cannot explain the metamorphoses of

Spanish gold;

The Family Idiot: (1:536c, Fr. 1:554) "...across the infinite variety of analytic

judgments, logicpositedc is limited to repeating indefinitely the principleposited of identity

[logical] and is incapable of producing and combining syntheticdial judgments in a rigorous

way...";

Herein-Peter Caws: Dialectic_thought came first: Analytical_thought required

advanced language formulation and precision

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analytic_rationalityposited

CDR: (p. 502c) "I have shown that analytical_rationalityposited can be surpassed1negc

and integrated by syntheticdial rationalityposited, but it is also clear that the contrary is not

truelived; a dialecticalposited proposition would lose its significationlived and dissolve into

relationsokposited&posited as 1st&2neg of exteriorityposited if it were ‘projected’ into the milieu of

logicallived or mathematical calculation...";

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analytical_Reasonposited/1neg

CDR: (p. 59c) "...Thus analytical Reasonposited/1neg, as a pure, universal schemata of

naturalposited lawsontology, is reallylived only the result of a syntheticdial transformationlivedc or, so

to speak, a particular practical momentdial of dialectical_Reasonposited: this latter, like animal-

tools, uses its organic powers to make certain regions of itself into a quasi-inorganic residue

deciphering the inert by means of its own inertiaI...";

(p. 91c, ce) "...analytical Reasonposited/1neg, which applies to

relationsokposited&posited as 1st&2neg in exteriorityposited...";

Sartre\Political Scarcity-RAnalysisposited cannot explain the metamorphoses of

Spanish gold;

Sartre\Flaubert’s Neurosis-RA. 1. ObjectiveI Determinations of Eighteenth-

Century Literature as Activity. Analytical Reason vs. historical privilege.

1-14Dial Negation ‘in the very actposited of denial2neg creates a provisional

totalitydial/lived; it is totalizingontology before being partial’ (CDR60) Sartre, CDR (p. 60, Fr. 175, continuing-7) sartre¶ "The transparence**a of praxis (let us

say, for the instant of individuallived praxisI) has its origin in the indissoluble joiningok

between negation2c (which totalizeslived/1neg in situation what it denies2neg) and a

projectlived/1negc which defines itself through connectionok [of three degrees]lived&posited with an

abstractposited and still formalpositedc wholeposited which the practical_agencylived projectsIc into

the future [avenir]lived and which appearslived [apparaît] as the reorganized unity of the denied

situation. In this sense, the very temporalization**b c of the undertaking is accessible since it

can be comprehendedlivedok on the basis of the future [avenir]lived which conditions it (that is

to say of the wholedial/ontology/2neg through the praxisontology/1neg as having to be

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provisional totalitydial/lived; it is totalizingontology before being[-there]lived partialok.

Furthermore, when it determines [‘that is, as limitation’] to deny a particular structuredial

[figure] of the refused2neg situationI , it does so on the ground [fond] of a provisional

totalization [in course]; the particularizationdial of the negation is not pure analysisposited, but,

on the contrary, a dialecticallived momentdial: the secondary structuredial appearslived [apparaît]

within the provisional wholedial as expressing the totalityI and as incapable of being changed

without the totalityI itself being modified (or even, as incapable of being changed except as a

result of the prior modification of the totalityI). It is precisely this unification (and the

discoverydial/lived which makes itself through the totalizedI field) which is

intelligibilitydial/livedR in the firstok [primary intelligibility]livedR instance, in so far as human

praxis, transparentc to itself as the unity in actlived (of a refusallived or of a projectI), defines its

own practical comprehensionlivedc as the totalizingI grasp [transformslived/2negtoposited/1neg]c of a

unified diversity (to comprehendIok, for a technician, is to see the wholedial—the total

functioningposited of a machine to be repaired, for example—and to search from the

functionposited and ensemblelived the structuresdial of detail [continued-8, same paragraph

below]

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Ref Sartre\Negation-2. The simultaneous Negation1 of Negation2 (TE83-88)

**a&b Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-TRANSPARENCE [of praxis?, transparence]; CDR only, all

hits listed; see Comparison to transluciditydial of dialecticlived, below.

CDR: (p. 60c, above, Fr. 175) "...It is precisely this unification (and the

discoverydial/lived which makes itself through the totalizedI field) which is

intelligibilitydial/livedR in the firstok [primary intelligibility]livedR instance, in so far as human

praxis, transparent to itself as the unity in actlived (of a refusallived or of a projectI), defines its

own practical comprehensionlivedc as the totalizingI grasp [transformslived/2negtoposited/1neg]c of a

unified diversity (to comprehendIok, for a technician, is to see the wholedial—the total

functioningposited of a machine to be repaired...";

(p. 61c, Fr. 176) "...It is possibleI that, on some plane, individuallived praxis is

transparent to itself and that, in this transparence, it provides the model and the ruleslivedc of

full intelligibilitydial/lived; but this still has to be proved...;

(p. 75c) Now dialecticallived intelligibilitydial/lived is, as we have seen, defined by

the degree of transparency of the totalization [in course] and the practical_agentc can

temporalizeCDR an intelligibleI evidencedial/lived only in so far as, situated interiorlived to this

totalizationI, he is himself totalizingontology and totalized...";

(p. 93c, Fr. 206) "...And although praxis is self-explanatory and transparent to

itself, it is not necessarilyCDRdial expressible in words. In fact, knowledge [connaissance]lived

appears as the explanation of the practical_fieldI of perceptionposited by the end, that is to say,

by future [futur]lived non-being...";

Comparison to transluciditydial of dialecticlived:

Transparency includes temporalization above at **b, "...In this sense, the very

temporalizationc of the undertaking is accessible since it can be comprehendedlivedok on the

basis of the future [avenir]lived which conditions it..." Transluciditydial cannot include

temporalization as in:

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The War Dairies: (p. 209c) "...But I’m not mylived own time either, in the way that

HeideggerR means.** Otherwise there would be a temporalBN transluciditydial coinciding

with the transluciditydial of consciousness; consciousness would be time, inasmuch as it

would be consciousness of time. But it’s not the same with time as with pleasure, which can

only exist for consciousness if it is consciousness..."

1-14Dial Technician sees wholedial from futurelived functioningposited towards pastI

obstruction (CDR60) Sartre, CDR (p. 60-1, Fr. 176, continuing-8, my paragraph break, repeating last part of

sentence) sartre¶(to comprehendlivedok, for a technician, is to see the wholedial—the total

functioningposited of a machine to be repaired, for example—and to search from the

functionposited and ensemblelived the structuresdial of detail which obstruct its functioningI). It

is a case, in fact, of what we were talking about [intelligibility] a momentdial ago:

totalizationlived diversifies itself and integration grows proportionately stronger. (CDRp. 61)

But it is also a movementdial/lived from the future [avenir]lived (for example, the machine in

working order) towards the past: repairing something means grasping

[transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] its integrity at once [à la fois] as a temporalCDR abstractlived and

as the future [futur]lived statelived which is to be reconstitutedI . On this basis, all the activities

of a practical_agentR are to be comprehendedlived [comprennert] through the future

[avenir]lived as a perpetual re-totalizationI of the provisional totalitydial/lived. And the

ensemblelived of these momentsdial, themselves re-totalized_by_the_temporalizationCDR, is in

fact originalokc intelligibilitydial/lived, for the practical_agentI is transparent to himself as the

unifying unity of himself and his environment. In this sense, the new is immediately

intelligibleI to him in activitylived itself (in so far as this activityI produces it, not in so far as

it comes from outside), since, for the practical_agentI, it [the new] is nothing but his own

practical_unity** in so far as he constantly produces it outside himself as the mark of an

ever deeper diversity. Thus dialecticallived intelligibilityI rests on the intelligibilityI of every

new determination [‘that is, as limitation’] of a practical totalityI, in so far as this

determinationI is nothing other than the preservation and the totalizingontology

transcendencelived/1neg of all previous determinationsdial/2neg and in so far as this

transcendenceI and preservationontology/2neg are explicable by a totalitydial/posited which has to

be realizedontology/1neg&2neg."

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-PRACTICAL_UNITYlived; of the practical_agent; all 5 hits in

our files listed.

"The Maoists in France": (p. 167c, 1971) "...At first, serial_thinking [A group can

never think or act in a serial way.] opposes practical_unitylived, in the same way that

atomization and serialismI oppose the formation of the grouplived..." [Here practical_unity is

a groups defense against serialization]

(p. 61c) "...for the practical_agentIc, the new is nothing but his own pactical_unitylived

in so far as he constantly produces it outside himself as the mark of an ever deeper diversity

[here practical unity is a person’s depth]...";


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(p. 93c) "...The transcendedlived/1neg and its transcendenceI can be explained only in

terms of a futureFr=? which does not yet exists, and within the practical_unitylived of a

totalizationlived in coursee..."

The Family Idiot: (1:109c) "... practical_unitylived which imposes neither categories nor

specific relationsok [of three degrees]lived&lived as 1st & 2neg, but which does not allow contacts,

whatever they are, to be isolated..."

(5:295c) "...For beauty, as the unrealizable archetype of every synthesisdial and

consequently the syntheticI principleposited or supreme category of the imagination, is in their

eyes merely the irrational organicismI of the RomanticsI and the vain attempt to define

manlived by the practical_unificationlived of the multiple insofar as this praxis, denounced by

atomism, has gone to heaven and is not manifest exclusively as the a priori rulelived of the

image and accessible only to the imagination. The shocked public discoversdial/lived Beauty

as a source of harm..."

Pages 61-4, ftn. 28, out of sequence at Sartre\Language&Comprehension-

Comprehension vs. geometrical proof

1-14Dial 10. The Plan of this work (CDR64-69)

Sartre, CDR (p. 64-5, Fr. 179) "If Historyposited/1neg is totalization [in course]lived and if

individuallived practices are the sole ground of totalizing_temporalizationdial/livedc, it is not

enough to reveallived the totalization [in course]lived in everyone, and consequently in our

critical_expérienceposited, through the contradictions which bothok express and mask it. Our

expérienceposited must also reveallived to us how the practical_multiplicitylived** (which may

be called ‘menlived’ or ‘Humanitylived’ according to taste) realizesontology/1neg&2neg, in its very

dispersalontology/2neg, its interiorizationontology/1neg. In addition, we must exhibit the

dialecticallived necessityCDRdial of this totalizingontology process. (CDRp. 65) Indeed, the

multiplicitylived of dialectical agentsc (that is, of individualslived producing a praxis) seems at

first sight to involve a second-orderR atomism, through the multiplicitylived of totalizations

[in course]lived. If this were so, we should return on a new level, to the atomism of

analytical_Reason. But since the starting point is individuallived praxisI, we must carefully

follow up every one of those threads of Ariadne*** which lead from this praxisI, to the

various forms of human ensembleslived; and in each case we shall have to determine [‘that is,

as limitation’] the structuresdial of these ensembleslived, their reallived modeok of formation out

of their elements, and finally their totalizinglived actionlived upon the elements which formed

them. But it will never be sufficient to show the production of ensemblesI by individualslived

or by one another, nor, conversely, to show how individualsI are produced by the ensemblesI

which they compose. It will be necessaryCDRdial to show the dialecticalposited [formal, below]

intelligibilitydial/posited of these transformationslived in every case.

(CDRp. 65, Fr. 180) sartre¶"Of course, this is a matter of formalpositedc

intelligibilitydial/posited. By this I mean that we must understandpositedok the bonds between

praxis, as self-conscious, and all the complex [human] multiplicities which are organized

through it and in which it loses itself as praxisI in order to become praxis-processgroupc.

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our project to determine [‘that is, as limitation’] whether serieslived precede groupslivedc or

vice versa, either originally or in a particular momentdial of Historyposited/1neg. On the

contrary: as we shall see, groupsI are born of seriesI and often end up by serializingI

themselves in their turn. So the only thing which matters to us is to display the transition

from serieslived to groupsI and from groupsI to seriesI as constant incarnationsc of our

practical_multiplicitylivedc, and to test the dialecticalposited intelligibilitydial/posited of these

reversible processes. In the same way when we study classc and classI-being we shall find

ourselves drawing examples from the historylived of the working classI. But the purpose will

not be to define the particular classI which is named the proletariat: our sole aim will be to

seek the constitutionI of a classI in these examples, its totalizingontology (and detotalizing) In

short, we are dealing with neither human historylived, nor sociologyI, nor ethnography.****

To parody a title of Kant's, we would claim, rather, to be laying the foundation for

'Prolegomena to any future [future]lived anthropology’.

(CDRp. 66, Fr. 180) sartre¶"If our critical_expérienceposited yields positive results, we have

established a priori—and not, as the Marxists think they have done, a posteriori—the

heuristic value of the dialecticalposited methodposited when applied to the humanI sciences and

the necessityCDRdial, with any factposited, provided it is humanI, of reinserting it within the

totalization [in course]lived, and comprehendinglived [comprendre] it on this basis.

Expériencelived at each momentdial will present itself as a double investigationok: if

totalization [in course]lived exists, the expérienceposited will supply us (in regressive sequence)

all the means brought into play by the totalization [in course]lived, that is to say all the partial

totalizations [in course]lived, detotalizationsdial and retotalizationsdial in their functionsposited

and abstractlived structuresdial and, on the other hand, it must enable us to see how these forms

dialecticallylived generate one another in the full intelligibilitydial/lived of praxis. Moreover, in

so far as our expérienceposited proceeds from the simple to the complex, from the abstractI to

the concretelived, from the constituentlived to the constituteddial/groupc, we must be able to settle,

without reference to concreteI historylived, the incarnations of individuallived praxisI, the

formalposited structuredial of its alienation27

and the abstractI circumstances which encourage

the constitutiondial/group of a common_praxis. This leads to the principal divisions of this

first volume: the constituentlived dialecticlived (as it grasps [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg]c itself

in its abstractI transluciditydialc in individuallived praxis) finds its limit within its own work

and is transformedlived into an anti-dialectic. [continued-9 same paragraph below]

------------------------------------------------- CDRFtn. 27, "We needI to understandposited

ok through this: the dialectical expérienceposited of

alienationI as an a priori possibilityI of human praxis is based on the reallived alienationsI to

be found in dial Historyposited/1neg. It would indeed be inconceivable in effect that humanI

activitylived should be alienatedI or that human_relationslived should be capable of being[-

there]lived reified if there were no such thing as alienationI and reificationI given2neg in the

practical relationok] [of three degrees]lived&lived as 1st & 2neg of the agent to the object of his

actlived and to other agents..."

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CDR: (p. 65 above) "...So the only thing which matters to us is to display the transition

from serieslived to groupslived and from groupsI to seriesI as constant incarnationsc of our

practical_multiplicitylived, and to test the dialecticalposited intelligibilitydial/posited of these

reversible processes..."

Herein-R1&2At ‘this level ... the regressive experience has reached bedrock’,

with (p. 69, Fr. 183) "...a practical_multiplicitylivedR2, whatever it may be, must unceasingly

totalizeI itself through interiorizinglived its multiplicitylived at all levels."

(p. 72c) "...A practical_multiplicitylived is a certain connectioncok [of three

degrees]lived/lived of matter to itself through the mediationI of the praxis which transformslived

the inert into worked_matterlived, just as the collection of objects which surroundsok us

imposesok its mediationI on the practical_multiplicitylived which totalizeslived usI. Thus, the

historylived of manlived is an adventureok of Natureposited/1negc..."

CDRII (p. 41c) "...This is the standpoint imposed upon us by the narrow limits of our

knowledges [connaissances]lived, when we attempt to construct a theory of

practical_multiplicitylived..."

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*** Dict: Ariadne, the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaê, gave Theseus the thread with which

he found his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth.

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**** CDR (p. 136P ) "I do not intend to study the types of groupslived, collectiveslived and

institutions which form themselvesS&A within this social field [scarcity]; I am not trying to

reconstituteI the momentsdial of Historyposited/1neg or the descriptions of sociology."; (p. 149c)

"But I am not trying either to give an interpretation of pre-historylived or to fall back on the

notionlived of classes and show, as so many others have done, how they originated. Such a

projectI exceeds the powers of one individuallived; and in any case it is not what I intend."

1-14Dial Anti-dialecticlived of passivitylived as permanent sealI of the inertI (CDR66)

Sartre, CDR (p. 66-7, Fr. 180, continuing-9, my paragraph break) sartre¶The anti-

dialectic**, or dialecticlived against the dialectic (dialectic of passivity),28

must reveallived

series to us as a type of human gatheringRc and alienation as a mediatedlived relationok [of

three degrees]lived&lived as 1st & 2neg to the otherlived and to the objects of labour in the element of

serialitylived and as a serialI modeok of co-existence [of seriesI and alienationI]. (CDRp. 67) At

this level we will discoverdial/lived an equivalence between alienatedI praxis and worked

inertia, and we shall call the domain of this equivalence the practico-inertc. [continued-10

same paragraph below]

------------------------------------------------- CDRFtn. 28. "The dialecticlived of passivitylived is in no way reducible to

analytical_Reasonposited, which is the a priori construction of the inertI (spatio-temporal)

framework of exterioritylived as such, or which, as it were, is the dialectic giving itself

exteriorityI in order to grasp [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] the exteriorI and manifesting itself

implicitly only in the unitary direction of the passiveI behaviour of exteriorizedI exteriorityI.

What we call the dialecticlived of passivityI, or anti-dialectic, is the momentdial of

intelligibilitydial/lived corresponding to a praxis turned against itself in so far as it is reinstated

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as the permanent sealR of the inertIc. (CDRp. 67, Ftn. 28) At this level we shall have to turn

our attention to the way inertiaI itself becomes dialectical through having this sealI placed

upon it: not in so far as it is pure inertiaI, but in so far as we must station ourselves at the

point of view of inertI exterioritylived in order to discoverdial/lived passivisedI praxisI (for

example, the circulation of currency). On the surface, this pseudo-dialecticlived or inverted

dialectic has the appearancelived of magic, but in fact it has its own type of rationality which

we shall have to reveallived."

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See Sartre\Political Scarcity-Sacrificial_groupsI _of_negation as needI is not praxisI

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-ANTI-DIALECTIClived;

CDR: Herein-R Constituent and constituted_dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg (CDR67);

(p. 350c) "...Indeed, let us not forget that the common_objectlivedc, as the unity of

the multiple outside itself, is above all the producer of seriallived unity and that it is on the

basis of this double determination [‘that is, as limitation’] that the anti-dialecticallived

structuresdial of the collectivity, or alteritylived, constitutesdial/group itself.";

(p. 811-2, Fr. 888, out of sequence from Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-VIII.

Class Struggle and Dialectical Reason (735-820)) "e...Defeat in struggle is produced by

freedomCDR and is comprehendedlived as such."

(p. 812) At this levelok, there is only one manlived in existence: the manlived who

realizesontology/1neg&2neg himself as a manI (as freeI praxisontology/1neg) by transforminglived the

Otherontology/2neg into a non-humanR objectI. And this manI is precisely grasped

[transformslived/2negtoontology/1nneg] by the victim as the freeI realizationI of humanityI,

producing itself through the means of the de-humanization of the OtherI. Thus struggle

involves a reciprocallived possibilityI that of the two combatants one makes himself manI and

makes the rulelived of manI through the other’slived becoming inertI: and in the developing

struggle, manI and the destruction of manI are given2neg as abstractlived reciprocitiesI which

will determine [‘that is, as limitation’] themselves through concretelived circumstances. It is

this [realizedI man’s] affirmationdial of dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg, based on the negation of

dialectical_ReasonI in the Otherposited/1neg, (and comprehendinglived itself as the possibilitylived

of being negated by the ReasonI of the OtherI) which we call the levelok of the anti-

dialecticlived, that is to say, the irreducibility in each of the praxes of the one and of that of

the other.";

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See Sartre\Intelligibility of History-II. The Totalization-of-Envelopment in a

Directorial Society: s Between the Dialectic and the Anti-Dialectic [no citations]

1-14Dial Constituent and constituted_dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg (CDR67)

Sartre, CDR (p. 67, Fr. 181, continued-10, my paragraph break) sartre¶Against the

practico-inert and impotence, we will see the grouplived emerge as a second type of

dialecticallived gatheringRc. But I shall distinguish, as will be seen, between the

constitutedCDRdial/group** and the constituentlived*** to the extent that the grouplived has to

constitutedial/group its common_praxisc through the individuallived [constitutientlived] praxisI of

the agents of whom it is composed. Therefore, if there is to be any such thing as totalization


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[in course], the intelligibilitydial/lived of constituted_dialectical_Reason****posited/1neg (the

intelligibilityI of common_actionslived and of praxis-processgroupc) must be based on

constituent_dialectical_Reason*****posited/1neg (the abstractlived and individuallived praxislived

of manlived at work). Within the context of our expérienceposited, we shall be able at this point

to define the limits of dialectical intelligibilityI and, by the same token, the specific

meaningCDR of totalizationlived. It may then appearlived [apparaîtra] that realitieslived such as

class, for example, do not have a unique and homogeneous kind of being[-there]lived, but

rather that they exist and they create themselves on all levels at once [à la fois], through a

more complex totalizationI than we expected. (since the anti-dialecticlivedR must be integrated

and totalized, but not destroyed, by the constituteddial/group dialectic which, in turn, can

totalizeI only on the basis of a constituentlived dialecticlived)."

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Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-SIMULTANEITY IN CONSTITUENT/CONSTITUTED REASON

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CONSTITUTEDCDR dial/group; later works; by group actionslived;

See above constituted_dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg

See below: Constitutiondial of differential terms in later works

ConstitutedBN in early works

ConsituteCDR/dial/group in later works

CDR: (p. 102c) "...But to the extent that this activitylived defines them as other than me,

to the extent that it constitutesdial/group melived as an intellectual confronting manual

workers..."

(p. 144c) "...interrogations of Historyposited/1neg are constitutingdial/group as they

permit us to realizeontology/1neg&2neg concretelived synthesesdial/lived/1negc there where we had as

yet only abstractlived, general conditionsdial/lived/2neg..."

(p. 158c) "We speak of a joy which I have or which I hade... [T]his

psychic_durationposited [is] constituteddial/group by the concretelived ... succession of psychic

factsposited..."

(p. 174c) "...But by the original negation the for-itselflived constitutesdial/group

itself as not being the thing..."

(p. 227c) "...It is this connectionlived&lived [rapport] [of three degrees] between

interioritylived and exterioritylived which originally constituteddial/group praxis as a relationok [of

three degrees]lived&lived as 1st & 2neg of the organismlived to its material environmentlived..."

(p. 252c) "(4) e...The otherlived/2neg must appear to the cogitolived as not being

melived/1nege... [I]t will be an internal_negationlivedR, which means a syntheticdial/lived, active

connectioncok [of three degrees]lived&lived of the two terms, each one of which

constitutesdial/group itself by denying that it is the other..."

(p. 254c) "... Any social field is constituteddial/group, very largely, by structured

ensembleslivedc of groupingslived..."

(p. 254c) "...grouplived constitutesdial/group itself as a negation of the collectivelived

which engenders and sustains it..."

CDRII: (p. 20c) "...The social_objectlivedR thus created possesses an objectivelived

realitylived as a constituteddial/group product..."


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(p. 56c) "...And the practical realizationontology [as doubly ontological project and

situation] of an impossible coexistence precisely constitutesdial/group the conflicte..."

The Family Idiot: (3:136c) "...Of course I have described a notionlived, the eidos of the

generous actlived as it was constituteddial/group historicallylived under the Old Regime..."

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Constitutiondial/group of differential terms in later works

(5:202c) "...We are dealing, in fact, with a groupI of connectionsposited&posited

[rapport] [of three degrees] between terms defined only by their reciprocalI oppositions, or

by a ‘differentialposited’ that determines each one by the others insofar as its sole essencelived

resides in its difference from this or that other term and, as a result, from all. This

differentiation as the reciprocalI determination of the pair appears as a form (formalposited

duality) on a foundation constituted/dial/group by the totalitydial/lived of differentials insofar as

each one can be differentiated from others only by affirmingdial itself as constituteddial/group

by its difference from the paired form that stands out against the wholedial..."

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ConstitutedBN in early works

Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-constituteBN; a bedrock term undefined by other terms.

The Emotions: (p. 93c) "...the psychological theory of emotion supposes a preliminary

description of affectivitylived insofar as the latter constitutesBN the being[-there]lived of the

human_realitylived, that is, insofar as it is constitutiveBN for ourlived human_realitylived of

being affective human_realitylived.

The Psychology of Imagination: (p. 16c) "...This positional actposited—and this is

essential—is not superimposed on the image after it has been constitutedBN. The positionalI

actI is constitutiveBN of the consciousness of the image..."

(p. 21c) "...The object of perceptionposited is constitutiveBN of an infinite

multiplicity of determinations [‘that is, as limitation’] and possibleI conditions..."

BN: (liiic) "...this spontaneous consciousness of my perceptionposited is constitutiveBN of

my perceptivelivedʗ consciousness [as its own existence]..."

(livc) "...Consciousness (of) pleasure is constitutiveBN of the pleasurelived as the

very mode of its own existence..."

lxic) "...This means that transcendencelived/1neg is the constitutiveBN structuredial of

consciousness; that is, that consciousness is born supported by a being[-there] [in-itself]

which is not itself [for-itself]..."

(p. 150c) "...a psychic duration can be constitutedBN as the immanentlived object

of reflection [réflexion]lived...."

(p. 159c) "Here we must distinguish between pure reflectionc [réflexion]lived and

impure [réflexion]lived or constituentlivedc reflection, [réflexion]lived which constitutesBN the

succession of psychic_factsI or psychelived..."

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*** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CONSTITUENTlived; individuallived in group actionslived;

BN; (p. 159c) "Here we must distinguish between pure reflectionc [réflexion]lived and

impure [réflexion]lived or constituentlived reflection, [réflexion]lived which constitutesBNc the

succession of psychic_factsI or psychelived..."


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**** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CONSTITUTED_DIALECTICAL_REASONposited/1neg; later

works; See below Both constituted and constituent dialectical Reason

Sartre\Groups&Reciprocity-IV. The Constitutedlived DialecticI (CDR505-563, no

citations)

***** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-CONSTITUENT_DIALECTICAL_REASONposited; later works

Both constituted and constituent dialectical Reasonposited/1neg:

CDR: (p. 21) Dialectic Reasonposited/1neg is neither constituentlived nor

constituteddial/group reasonlivedcok it is Reasonposited/1neg constitutingdial/group itself in and through

the worldlived, dissolving in itself all constituted_Reasonposited/1neg in order to

constitutedial/group new ones which it surpasses1neg and dissolves in turn. It is, therefore, at

once [à la fois] a type of rationalityI and the surpassingI of all types of rationalityI.

(p. 25c) "...even if it were trueontology that Historyposited/1neg clarifies itself when

considered dialecticallylived, the example of the Positivistsposited/1neg shows that this can be

regarded as mere determinism. For this reason, one must already be situated within

constituent_dialectical_Reasonposited/1neg in order to see HistoryI as

constituted_dialectical_Reasonlived/1neg...";

(p. 58c) "...We have seen that dialectical_Reason, when applied to the sciences

of Natureposited/1neg, cannot be ‘constitutivedial/group’: in other words, it is no more than the

empty ideaok of totalizationI [Psych] projected [projetée] beyond the strict and quantitative

lawsontology established by positivist Reasonok..."

(p. 69c) "ce...If the results of the expérience are positive, we shall finally be in a

position to define dialectical_Reasonpositedok as the constituent_[dialectical_Reason]posited/1neg

and constituted_[dialectical]_Reasonposited/1neg of practical_multiplicity..."

(p. 96c) "...Inversely, when we will have accomplished the totalitydial/lived of our

expérienceposited, we shall see that individuallived praxis, always inseparable from the milieu

which it constituteddial/group, and which conditions and alienates it, is at the same time

[simultaneity in constituent/constituted Reason] constituent_Reasonposited/1neg itself, operating

within Historyposited/1neg seen as constituted_Reasonposited/1neg."

3-14Dial At ‘this levelI ... the regressiveposited expérienceposited has reached bedrock’

(CDR67-9) Sartre, CDR (p. 67-8, Fr. 182) sartre¶"At this levelok, it will become evident that the

regressivepositedR expérienceposited has reached bedrock. In other words, we shall have

grasped [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] our individuallived depth in so far as, through the

movementdial/lived of groupslived and serieslived, our roots reach down to fundamental

materiality. Every momentdial of the regressionI will seem more complex and general than

the isolated, superficial momentI of our individualI praxis, yet from another point of view, it

remains completely abstractlived, that is, it is still no more than a possibility. (CDRp. 68) In

fact, whether we consider the connectionlived&lived [rapport] [of three degrees] between

grouplived and serieslived formallyposited, in so far as each of these ensembleslived may produce

the otherlived, or whether we grasp [transformslived/2negtoposited/1neg] the individualIlived, within

our expérienceposited, as the practical ground of an ensembleI and the ensembleI as producing

the individuallived in his realitylived as historicallived agent, this formalI procedure will lead us


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to a dialectical_circularitylived. This circularityI exists; it is even (for Engels as much as for

Hegel) characteristic of the dialecticalposited order and of its intelligibilitydial/posited..."

(CDRp. 68, Fr. 182) sartre¶"Thus, dialectical expérienceposited in its regressiveposited

momentdial will reveallivedc to us no more than the static condition of the possibilityontology of a

totalization [in course], that is to say, of a Historyposited/1neg. We must therefore proceed to

the inverse and complementary expérienceposited: by progressivelyR recomposing the

historicallived process on the basis of the shifting and contradictory connectionsposited&posited

[rapport] [of three degrees] of the formations lookedI at, we will make the expérienceI of

Historyposited/1neg; and this dialectical expérienceposited should be able to show us whether the

contradictionsI and social struggles, the communal and individuallived praxislived, labour as

producing toolsok, and toolspositedok as producing menlived and as regulator of human labour

and human_relationslived, etc., make up the unity of an intelligibledial/posited (and thus

directedposited) totalizinglived movementdial/lived. But above all, though these discoveriesdial/lived

have to be made and consolidated in connectionposited&lived [rapport] [of three degrees] to

these particular examples, our critical expérienceposited aims to recompose the

intelligibilitydial/posited of the historicallived movementI with which the different ensembleslived

are defined by their conflicts. It [critical expérienceposited] seeks, on the basis of

synchroniclived [‘ensemble of the present’] structuresdial and their contradiction, the

diachroniclived [‘in its human depth’] intelligibilitydial/lived of historicallived

transformationslivedc, the order of their conditions and the intelligibledial/lived reasonlived for the

irreversibility of Historyposited/1neg, that is to say, for its direction. This syntheticdial

progressionI, though merely formalposited, must fulfil several functionsposited: by recomposing

instances in terms of process, it must lead us, if not to the absoluteontology concretelived, which

can only be individualI (this eventlived at this date of this historylived), at least to the absoluteI

systemc of conditions for applying the determination [‘that is, as limitation’] ‘concretelived

factlived’ to the factposited of one historyI.**

got intelligib this far

(CDRp. 69, Fr. 183) sartre¶"In this sense it could be said that the aim of the

critical_expérienceposited is to establish a structuredial and historicalI anthropology, that the

regressiveI momentdial of the expérienceposited is the basis of the intelligibilitydial/posited of

sociological knowledge [savoir]posited (without prejudging any knowledges

[connaissances]lived which are constituentslived of this knowledge [savoir]posited, and the

progressivepositedI momentI must be the basis of historicallived knowledge [savoir]lived

(without prejudging the reallived singular unfolding of the totalizedontology facts). Naturally,

the progressionI will deal with the same structuredial as those brought to light by the

regressiveI expérienceposited. Its sole concern will be to rediscoverdial/lived the momentsdial of

their inter-relations, the ever vaster and more complex movementdial/lived which totalizesI

them and, finally, the very direction of the totalizationI, that is to say, the ‘meaningCDR of

Historyposited/1neg’ and its truthontology. The multiple fundamental bonds between the

constituentlived dialectic and the constituted dialectic and vice versa through the constant

mediationlived of the anti-dialecticlived, will become clear to us in the course of these new

proceedures. If the results of the expérience are positive, we shall finally be in a position to

define dialectical_Reasonpositedok as the constituent_[dialectical_Reason]posited/1negc and


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constituted_[dialectical]_Reasonposited/1negc of practical_multiplicityR1. We shall then

comprehendlived [comprendrons] the meaningCDRI of totalization_without_a_totalizerc, or a

detotalized_totalizationc and we shall finally be able to prove the strict equivalence between

praxis with its particular articulations and the dialectic as the logicposited of creative

actionlived, that is to say, in the final analysis, as the logic of freedomCDRR."

"Volume I of the Critique of Dialectical Reason stops as soon as we reach the ‘locus

of Historyposited/1neg’; it is solely concerned with finding the intelligibledial/posited foundations

for a structuraldial anthropologyI to the extent, of course, that these syntheticdial structuresdial

are the condition of a directed ‘totalizationI’. Volume II will retrace the stages of the

criticalc progressionI: it will attempt to establish that there is one humanI historylivedc, with

one truthontology and one intelligibilitydial/lived—not by considering the material content of this

historyI, but by demonstrating that a practical_multiplicityIR2c, whatever it may be, must

unceasingly totalizeI itself through interiorizinglived its multiplicity at all levels." Ref

Sartre\Intelligibility of History-Book III. The Intelligibility of History-Index

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** See example Sartre\Flaubert's Constitution-Transition to Progressive Synthesis

3-14Dial 11. The individuallived and History [densely presents the purposes of the

Critique] (CDR70-74) Sartre, CDR (p. 70, Fr. 184) "The linkok of our critical_expérienceposited is none other

than the fundamental identity [logical]c between an singular life and human historylived (or,

from the methodologicalposited point of view, the ‘reciprocitylived of their perspectives’).

Strictly speaking, the identity [logical]Ic of these two totalizingontology processes must be

provedI. But in fact critical_expérienceposited proceeds from exactly this hypothesis and each

momentdial of the regression (and later, of the progression) directly puts it

[critical_expérience]I into question. The continuity of the regressionI would be interrupted at

every level if ontological identity [logical]I and methodologicalposited reciprocitylived were not

discoveringdial/lived themselves every time as factposited and as necessaryCDRdial and

intelligibledial/lived truthlived. In realitylived, the hypothesis which makes the expérienceposited

feasible is precisely the one which the expérienceposited aims to demonstrate. If there is a

dialecticlived we must submit to it as the insurmountable rigor of the totalization [in course]

which totalizesI us, and grasp [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg]c it in its freeCDR practical

spontaneityCDRc, as totalizingI praxis which we are; at each stage in our expérienceposited we

must rediscoverdial/lived, within the intelligibleI unity of the syntheticdial movementdial/lived, the

contradiction and indissoluble joiningok? between necessityCDRdial/lived as 1st or 2negc and

freedomCDRlived as 1st or 2negc, though, at each momentdial, this connectioncok [of three

degrees]lived&lived is present in different forms. In any case, if mylived/2neg life, as it deepens,

becomes Historyposited/1neg, it must discoverI itself, at a deep level of its freeCDR development,

as the rigorous necessityI of the historicallived process so as to rediscoverlived/1neg itself still

more profoundly as the freedomCDR of this necessityCDRdial/lived/2neg and, finally, as the

necessityI of freedomCDR.


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(CDRp. 70-1, Fr. 184) sartre¶"The expérienceposited will reveallived this interplay of aspects

in so far as the totalizerI is always also the totalizedI, even if, as we shall see, he is the Prince

[Machiavelli’s] in personoklived. And, when we will discoverdial/lived—if the experienceFr=?

must take place—beneath the transluciditydial of freeCDR individuallivedok

R praxis, the rocky

sub-soil of necessityCDRdial, we will be able to hope that we have taken the right track. (p. 71)

Then we shall be able to glimpseok what these two volumes together will try to proveIok: that

necessityCDRdial, as the apodictic structuredial of dialectic expérienceposited, residesok neither in

the freeI development of interioritylived nor in the inert dispersal of exterioritylived; it

[necessityI] imposes itself, as an inevitable and irreducible momentdial, in the interiorizationI

of the exteriorI and in the exteriorizationI of the interiorI. This double movementI will be that

of our entire regressiveI expérienceposited: a thorough examination of individuallivedok praxis

will show us that it interiorizesIc the exteriorI (in delimiting, through actionlived itself, a

practical_fieldlived); but inverselyI, we shall graspI in the toolok and in objectificationlived

through labour, an intentional exteriorizationI of interiorityI (of which a seal is at once [à la

fois] the symbol and the example); similarly, the movementI by which the practical life of

the individualI must, in the course of the expérienceposited, dissolveok itself into sociological

or historicallived totalizationslived, does not preserveok in the new form which appearlived

[apparaît] as the objectivelived realitylived of life (serieslived, grouplived, systemI, process) the

translucidIok interiorityI of the totalizingontology agent. To put it more vividly, if less precisely,

it is initially within itself that freeI subjectivitylivedc discoversdial/lived its objectivityI as the

intelligibleIok necessityCDRdial of being[-there]lived a perspective within totalizationsI which

totalizeI it (which integrate it in syntheticdial developing forms). SubjectivityI then

appearslived [apparaît], in all its abstractionslived, as the verdict which compel us to

realizeontology/1neg&2neg, freelyIok and through ourselvesontology/1neg, the sentence that a

‘developing [en cours]’ societyontology/2neg has pronounced upon us and which defines us a

priori** in our being[-there]I. This is the levelok at which we shall encounter the practico-

inert.

** Ref Sartre\Lifework-EthicsR (index)

3-14Dial Totalizationlived ‘which controls melived ... takes the form of

necessityCDRdial/ontology for two reasons’ (CDR71) Sartre, CDR (p. 71-2, Fr. 185) "However, it must be comprehendedlived

ok that praxis

presupposes a material agent (the organic individuallived) and the materialI organization of an

operationlived or posited** on matterlived and by matterI. Thus we shall always find menlived

mediatedlived by matterI at the same time [dialectical_circularitylived] as they mediateI

different materialI sectorsok. A practical_multiplicitylivedc is a certain connectionok [of three

degrees]lived&lived of matterlived to itselflived through the mediationI of the praxisI which

transformslived the inert into worked_matterlived, just as the collection of objectslived which

surroundsok us imposesok its mediationI on the practical_multiplicityIc which totalizes usI.

Thus, the historylived of manlived is an adventureok of Natureposited/1neg. Not only because manI

is a materialI organismI with materialI needs but because worked_matterI, as

exteriorizationlived of the interiorlived, produces man, who produces or uses it

[worked_matterI] in so far as he is constrained, in the totalizingontology movementdial/lived of


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the [practical] multiplicityI which totalizesI it [the totalizingI movementI], to re-interiorizeI

the exteriorityI of his product. The [1] unification of the inertI outwardly [au-dehors, vs. at

the heart, below], whether by the sealI or by lawontology, and [2] the introduction of inertiaI at

the heart [above] of praxisI for one and the other result, as we have seen***, in producingI

necessityCDRdial as a strict determination [‘that is, as limitation’] at the heart of

human_relationslived. (CDRp. 72) And the totalization [in course] which controls melived, in so

far as I [je] discoverdial/lived it within mylived freeI lived totalizationI, only takes the form of

necessityI for two fundamental reasons: first, the totalizationI which totalizesI melived has to

make use of the mediationI of inertI products of labour; second, a practical_multiplicityIc

necessarilyCDRdial has concerns in every case for its own inertiaIc of exteriorityI, that is to say,

its character as a discrete quantity. [continued-12 same paragraph below]

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-OPERATIONlived or posited [opérationnf, opèrerv, opérationneladj];

dialecticlived;

Transcendence of the Ego: (p. 44c, Fr. 27-8) "But it must be remembered that

all the writers who have described the Cogitoposited/1neg have dealt with it as a reflective

[réflexive]posited operationposited, that is to say, as an operation of the second_degreec. Such a

CogitoI is performed by a consciousness directed upon consciousness, a consciousness

which takes consciousness as an object.

The Emotions: (p. 53c) "...But an operationlived on the universe is carried out

most often without the subject’s leaving the unreflectiveR [irréfléchi]lived planeok..."

BN (p. 492c) "...Nihilationc, internal_negationlived, a determiningdial [‘that is, as

limitation’] turning back upon the being[-there]lived which I am—these three operationslived

are reallylived one. They are only momentsdial of an original transcendencelived/1neg which

launches toward an end by nihilatingI me so that I may announce to myselflived what I am by

means of the future [futur]livede..."

(p. 518c) "Afterwards, it will be permissible to discoverdial/posited abstractposited

operationalposited analytic_schematapositedc which will be depicted as the legalposited truthposited

of the sentenceposited: the dialectic_schemalivedc—the schemaI of the national languagelived—

the linguistic schemaI in general. But these schemasI, far from preexistingc the concretelived

sentenceI are affected in themselves with Unselbstāndigkeit [see selbstāndig] and exist

always only incarnated and sustained in their very incarnationI by a freedomBN."

Search for a Method: (p. 172c) "...And those which try to disclose the existential

structuresdial explicitlyposited, are limited to denoting regressivelyposited the reflective

[réflexive]lived actlived inasmuch as it is a structuredial/posited of existence and a practical

operationposited which existenceI effects upon itself..."

(p. 174c, Fr. 128) "But this reflective [réflexive]lived operationlived would

not needI to be repeated and would be transformedlived into a formalposited knowledge

[savoir]positedc if its contentgroup could exist by itself [in the study of anthropology] and be

separated from concretelived, historicallived actionslived, strictly definedposited by the

situationlived..."

CDR: (p. 71c, above);

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CDRII: (p. 33c) "...precisely because it is concretelived and reallived—totalization

operateslived only through the limitationslived it imposesok...";

The Family Idiot: (2:82c, Fr. 1:736) "Here the operationlived is performed on

three levels of unreality, since the generous lord [Gustave] transformslived himself into a

clown in order to be reunited with his lost vassalage in an_otherlived—in whom he is

increasingly unsure he reallylived finds himself..."

(5:56c) "...We need merely recapitulate briefly the givens2neg that situateI the

futureFr=? Postromantic writer in the cultureI between 1830 and 1850 to demonstrate that

neurosis—we shall see more precisely what kind of neurosis—is an operationallived

imperative for him..."

*** Where?

3-14Dial The problem of necessityCDRdial: Interiorizationlived of number, quantityI,

Natureposited/1neg: The threat of being a robot (CDR72) Sartre. CDR (p. 72,, Fr. 186, continued-12, my paragraph break) sartre¶We shall see

that the interiorizationlived of number is not always possibleI and that, when it does take

place, quantitylived or posited**, though it is lived dialecticallylived in interiorityI, produces in

each member of a grouplived, a profound bed of inertiac (exterioritylived within interiorityI).

Consequently, the problem of necessityCDRdial, which is immediately given2neg as a

structuredial of our critical_expérienceposited, necessarilyI leads us to the fundamental problem

of anthropologyc, that is, to the relationsok [of three degrees]posited&posited as 1st & 2neg of

practical_organismspositedc to inorganic_matterposited. We must never lose sight of the

factposited that exteriorityposited, (that is to say, quantityposited, or , in other words,

Natureposited/1neg), is, at once [à la fois] for every multiplicity of agents, a threat from without

and from within (we shall see its role in the anti-dialecticlived), and that it [exteriorityI] is at

the same time the permanent means of the profound occasion for totalization [in course]. rephrasedWe shall also see that it is the essencelivedR of man in the sense that essenceI, as

transcendedlived/1neg pastok, is inertI and becomes the transcendedI objectificationlived of the

practical_agent (thus producing the perpetually resolved contradiction and the perpetually

renewed contradictionI of man-as-producer and man-as-product [below] in each

individuallived and within every multiplicity).32

[continued-13 same paragraph below]

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Ftn. 32. "The objectificationI of manc places a seal on the inertI. Thus, a transcendedI

objectificationI [man-as-producer and man-as-product, above], in so far as the practical manI

there arches toward his essencelived, is, in the last analysis, a robot. In the strange worldlived

which we are describing the robot is the essencelived of manI; that means he freelyCDR

surpasses1neg himself towards the future [avenir]lived but he thinkslived of himself as a robot as

soon as he looksI back on his pastIok. He apprehendslived himself in the inert and, as a

consequence, he is a victim of his reified image, even prior to all alienation."

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** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-QUANTITYlived or posited;

BN: (p. 191, not cited);


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The Family Idiot: Sartre\Flaubert’s School Years-RInvesting quality into quantity

solicits dreaded competition, with (3:49 Ftn. 38c) "...the connections [rapport] [of three

degrees]posited&posited as 1st&2neg between quantityposited and qualityposited ... are conceived here as

mutually exclusive—that is to say [c’est-à-dire], by analytical_Reason—when their

antinomy is in fact dialecticlived..."

3-14Dial In ‘the second volume ... exterioritylived is the inertI causativeposited force of

Historyposited/1neg’ (CDR72) Sartre, CDR (p. 72-4, Fr. 186, continued-13, my paragraph break) sartre¶In the second

volume we will also learn that exterioritylived is the inert motivelived [moteur] force of

Historyposited/1neg in that it is the only possibleI basis for the novelty which places its seal on it

[History] and which it preserves at once [à la fois] as an irreducible momentdial and as a

memory of Humanity. Whether as inertI causativeI [moteur] force or as creative memory,

inorganic_matterc (always organized by us) is never absent from the historylived of our

organic_materialitiesI; it is the condition of exterioritylived, interiorizedlived so as to make

historyI possibleI , and this principleposited condition is the absoluteontology exigencylived that

there must be a necessityCDRdial of the Historyposited/1neg at the heart of intelligibility (and

perpetually dissolved in the same movementdial/lived of practical intellection33

)e inaccessible...

(CDRp. 73e same...) (CDRp. 74) ... In the regressive movementI, in effect, we find again the

_dialecticlived, the anti-dialecticlived and the constituted dialectic. And in the momentdial of

syntheticdial progression, we shall follow up the totalizingontology movementI which integrates

these three partial movementsI within a total totalization [in course]. On this basis we shall

be able to posit the question of the possibilityI in historylived (and, in general, in praxis), of

historicallived necessityCDRdial in its trueontology light. It is thus in this progressive momentdial

that we shall finally comprehendlivedok our original problem: what is Truthposited/1neg as the

praxisI of syntheticdial unification, and what is Historyposited/1neg; why is there such a thing as

human historylived (ethnography having acquainted us with societies with no historyI)? And

what is the practical meaningCDR of historical_totalization in so far as it can disclose itself

today to a (totalizingI and totalizedI) agent situated within Historyposited/1neg in development."

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Ftn. 33. next sub-topic

3-14Dial There ‘is a contradictionI between intelligibility and necessityCDRdial’ (CDR73,

Ftn 33) Sartre, CDR (p. 73, Ftn. 33, Fr. 187) "In effect, there is a contradiction between

intelligibilitydial/lived or posited** and necessityCDRdial. Intelligibilitydial/lived makes the new

perfectly evident on the basis of the old; it enables us to witness the transparent practical

production of the new on the basis of previously defined factors and in the light of

totalization. However, precisely because this light is shed everywhere, it dissolves that

government from the exteriorlived which remains a necessityCDRdial, as we shall see, even

within procedures of thoughtlived. For necessityI, in effect, merely eliminated all possibilityI

by simply positing from the exteriorI the impossibility, given2neg y and z, that the

phenomenalived x should not be produced (and, naturally this impossibility at the same time

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concerns the procedures of thoughtlived). Dialecticallived intellectionc, insofar as it measures

what is given2neg as a full and temporalized intuitionlived of the organizing movementdial/lived

whereby y and z are unified in x simply through their joining [liaison] with interioritylived

(within the totalization in courseI), tend to be absorbed into the very temporalizationI of this

evidencedial/lived. TransparencyI is its only guarantee and the original problem is not that of

ruling out possibilitieslived but that of grasping [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg], in every one of

its momentsdial and as on the basis of a future [future]lived totalitydial/lived, the full

realizationlived of one possibilityI. The evidenceI tends to refuse apodicticity in the same

measure wherein necessityCDRdial tends to repulse the evidenceI. But in the measure wherein

historicallived evidenceI always indicates the bonds of interiorityI to the extent that these unite

and transformlived—partially—an exteriorI diversity (every element of which is exteriorlived to

the others, exteriorI to itself and governed from the exteriorI) to the measure also wherein

these interiorI bonds are affected through their very activity with a quasi-exteriorityI,

necessityCDRdial appears [paraît] to be at the heart of the evidenceI as the formalposited inertia

of intelligibilitydial/lived; every adjustment tends to dissolve it in the very movementI which

circumscribes the inertI diversity and seems, for a momentdial, to communicate it with an

internalok and autonomous force. But necessityCDRdial reappearsI [reparaît] at the very end of

the partial totalizationI as a bony structuredial, the skeleton of evidenceI. Thus the

intelligibilitydial/lived of praxis comes to trip over the result of this praxisI, at once [à la fois]

this statelived is projected [Psych] and always different, (that is to say, in so far as it too is

linked to the wholedial by exteriorityI) it will be given2neg as incapable of being[-there]

different than it is (and as a result totalizingontology proceedures of thoughtontology will be given

as having been incapableok of beingI other than they are). It is given as an image rather than

an example—that the reading of novels and plays is a totalizationI (as is the life of the

reader). On the basis of the double totalizationI effected by historylived, and as his own

singular life, the reader approaches the work as a totalitydial/lived to be re-totalizedI in its own

singularity. The intellectionI of conducts or of dialogues must, if the work is to satisfy the

mind, be at once [à la fois] the transluciditydial of the unforeseen, (one witnesses the

intelligibledial/lived birth of a response, for example, as the partialI re-totalizationI of the

situation and of the conflicts) and, in so far as each momentdialok falls within a past of inertiaI,

the impossibility, to which immediate memoryI [mémoire] is subjected, that this momentIok

should have been different."

CDR (79-94) continued at Negation-I. Individual Praxis as Totalization

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CDR: (p. 92c, Fr. 205) "...Since the individuallivedok worker is just such a totalization

[in course], he can only comprehendlivedok himselflived/1neg in his actslived, and in his

connectionok [of three degrees]lived&posited to Natureposited/1neg (and indeed, as we shall see, in

his connectionsok [of three degrees]lived&lived with otherslived/2negok) if he: [1] interpretsc every

partialI totalityI as part of the totalizationI of ensembleslived; and [2] their

internal_relationslivedcok [in a totality] as partI of their relationok [of three degrees]lived&lived as

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as partI of the connectionIlived&livedok which bonds the future [futur]lived to the pastlived. But

inversely, his praxis which is dialecticallived permits its own proper intelligibilitydial/lived..."

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See Sartre\Intelligibility of History-RThree Factors of Dialectical Intelligibility

[totalization, particularizationdial, contradiction: Dialectical intelligibility—[as] Reason or

constituted Reason—is defined through totalization

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**5 Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-INTELLIGIBILITYdial/lived or /posited [intelligibilité]; see Herein-

primary_intelligibilitylived and -secondary intelligibilityposited;

Sartre\Language&Comprehension-praxis as its own intelligibilitylived (index)

CDR: (p. 43, Ftn. 21c) "...It has been clearly demonstrated that, in the very last part of

Kant's life, the requirement of intelligibilityI led him right up to the threshold of

dialectical_Reasonposited.";

(p. 63c, Ftn. 26) "...But here intelligibilitydial/lived originates in the intuitivelived

grasp [transformslived/2negtolived/1neg] of two contradictoryR practices (...) one of which

dominates the other by submitting to its lawontologyc.

(p. 65c) "...its dialectical intelligibilitydial/lived (bonds of interioritylived and of

exterioritylived, interiorI structures [of consciousness], connectionslived&lived [rapport] [of three

degrees] to other classesI, etc.)..."


analytical_rationalismposited, the dialectic is already present, even at the highest level of

abstractionlived, in the elementary but complete form of a lawontologyc of development and a

schemac of intelligibilitydial/posited.

Sartre\Negation-Negation ‘of negation produces an indeterminate ensemblelived

unless arising from and transcendinglived/1neg toward totalization’

CDRII: (p. 11c) "But if the [boxing] bout must be dialecticallylived intelligibledial/lived—

in other words, if it must reveallived itself as a unity—its intelligibilitydial/lived must be that of a

very particular praxis-processgroup, since the process is defined here as the deterioration of

one praxis by the otherlived."

4-11Dial Appendix

2-15Dial Subjectivitylived ‘and objectivitylived seem entirely useless notionslived’[1969]

Sartre, "The Itinerary of a Thought," (p. 35P, 1969) "L’Etre et Le Néant traced an

interiorlived experienceFr=?, without any coordination with the exteriorlived experienceFr=? of a

petty-bourgeois intellectual, which had become historicallylived catastrophic at a certain

momentdial. For I wrote L’Etre et Le Néant after the defeat of France, after all. But

catastrophes have no lessons, unless they are the culmination of a praxis. Then one can say,

mylived actionlived has failed. But the disaster which overwhelmed the country had taught us

nothing. Thus, in L’Etre et Le Néant, what you could call ‘subjectivitylived’** is not what it

would be for me now, the small margin in an operation whereby an interiorizationlived re-

exteriorizeslived itself in an actlived. But ‘subjectivitylived’ and ‘objectivitylived’ seem to me


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entirely useless notionslived, anyway. I might still use the term ‘objectivityI’, I suppose, but

only to emphasize that everything is objectiveIc. The individuallived interiorizesIlivedc his

social determinations [‘that is, as limitation’]: he interiorizesI the relationFr=? [of three

degrees]lived&lived as 1st & 2neg of production, the family of his childhood, the historicallived past,

the contemporary institutions, and he then re-exteriorizesI these in actslived and options which

necessarilyCDRdial refer back to them. None of this existedI in L’Etre et Le Néant."

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See Foucault\Subjectivity-Index

Ref Sartre\Lifework-Afterthoughts on ethics and Being and Nothingness-Index

** Ref Sartre\Index of Terms-SUBJECTIVITYlived;

BN: (p. 478c) "Mylived end is a certain objectivelived statelived of the worldlived, mylived

possiblelivedc is a certain structuredial of my subjectivitylived; the one [objective state] is

revealedlived to the theticpositedc consciousness, the other [the possible]lived flows back over the

non-theticlivedc consciousness in order to characterize it..."

Existentialism: (p. 44P) "...We definitely wish to establish the human realmFr=? as an

ensemblelived of values distinct from the materialI realmFr=?. But the subjectivitylived that we

have thus arrived at, and which we have claimed to be truthlived, is not a strictly individuallived

subjectivitylived, for we have demonstrated that one discoversdial/lived in the cogitolived not only

himself, but otherslived as well."

Notebooks for an Ethics: (p. 96c), with "...Whatever objectivitylived one gives to a

necessaryBNontologyc system, as necessaryI it belongs to some subjectivitylived..."

Search for a Method: (p. 9P, Ftn. 6, Fr. 23) "In fact, the subjectivelived life, just insofar

as it is lived, can never be made the objectposited of a knowledge [savoir]positedc..."

(p. 33, Ftn. 9c, Fr. 37) "...The truthontology is that subjectivitylived is neither

everything nor nothing; it represents a momentdial in the objectivelived process (that of

interiorizationlived of exterioritylived), and this momentdial is perpetually eliminated only to be

perpetually reborn. Now, each of these ephemeral momentsdial—which rise up in the course

of humanI historylived and which are never either the first or the last—is livedI as a point of

departure by the subjectlived of historylived..."

(p. 98c, Ftn. 4, Fr. 80, "I add these observations: (1) That this objectivelived

truthlived of the objectifiedlived subjectivelivedc must be considered as the only truthI of the

subjectiveI. Since it exists only in order to be objectifiedI, it is on the basis of the

objectificationlived, that is on the realizationontology/1neg&2neg, that it must be judged in

itselfontology/1neg and in the worldontology/2neg..."

CDR: (p. 54c) "...Supposing, for a momentdial, that it [dialectic experience] is possibleI

, it is right away [aussitôt] clear that mylived culturelivedc cannot be treated as a subjectivelived

accumulation of knowledges [connaissances]lived and methodsposited ‘in mylived mind’; instead,

this culturelived which I call minelived must be conceived as a specific participation in

interioritylived in the objectivelived culturelived..."

(CDRp. 71c) "...To put it more vividly, if less precisely, it is initially within itself

that freeI subjectivitylived discoversdial/lived its objectivitylived as the intelligiblelivedok

necessityCDRontology of being[-there]lived a perspective within totalizations [in course] which

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appearslived [apparaît], in all its abstractionslived, as the verdict which compels us to carry out,

freelyCDR and through ourselves, the sentence that a ‘developing’ society has pronounced

upon us and which defines us a priori** in our being[-there]I. This is the level at which we

shall encounter the practico-inert..."

The Family Idiot: (1:104c) "...Subjectivitylived is the abrupt connectionok [of three

degrees]lived&lived as 1st&2neg of the exteriorlived/2neg with himselflived/1nneg in the process of

interiorizationlived...";

(1:129c) "...If the mother loves him, in other words, he gradually

discoversdial/lived his self-objectlived as his loveI objectI. A subjectivelived objectlived for

himselflived through an increasingly manifest otherlived, he becomes a valueI in his own eyes

as the absolute end of habitual processes..."

(1:134c) "[But] When the valorization of the infant through loveI is

accomplished badly or too late or not at all, maternal inadequacy defines experienceFr=? as

non-sensec; inner experienceFr=? revealslived to the child a slack succession of present

momentsdial that slip back into the past. But [Flaubert's] subjectivelived existence has no

direction since it is not defined as the movementI that departs from past loveI (creative) and

goes toward future [futur]lived loveI (expectation by the otherlived, mission, happiness,

temporalBN ecstasies)..."

(1:141c) "...The child remains on the levelok of pure subjectivitylived; he does not

designate the loveI which is refused as a being from outside, rather it designates itself

through the empty category of objectivitylived as a realitylived that is powerless and

unconnected—loveI is unknown [pas connu]lived but its absenceI is made known

[connaître]livedok as a defect of being[-there]lived..."

(1:419c) "...pure subjectivitylived, inchoate and present insofar as it made itself

pathos, that is to say [c’est-à-dire] the desire for valorizationI. The basis of the non-existent

rights which the envious [person] maintains are his against all odds and which causeFr=? him

such suffering is desireI in itself, which knows [connait]lived its impotence and is preserved in

spite of everything as a gaping demand, all the stronger because unheeded..."

(2:109c) "...If [Gustave's] operation succeeds, if otherslived believelived and, what

is more, affirm for him that he is just as he seems, he will be recreated. He does not even

despair of recuperating himself; at the end of the enterprise, the subjectivelived and the

objectivelived will coincide, not through the interiorizationlived of the exteriorlived objectlived

but through the absorption of the for-itselflived by the in-itselflived. But this absolute

Otherposited/1negc that the otherlived makes him—otherI than othersI, otherI than himself—can

only exist, for them, in the third_personc singular [as He]... The result for Gustave is an

absolute priority of the ‘Heposited/1neg’ over the ‘I’..."

(5:3c) "Thus far we have tried to understandpositedFr=? Flaubert’s neurosis from

within, to reconstruct its Protohistorical genesis, its historylived, and to discoverdial/lived the

subjectivelived teleological_intentionc it constitutesI and by which it is structureddial in turn.

When I call these structuringdial intentionsI subjectivitylived, I mean of course to select and

designate only those arising from his particular—originally familial—situation which have

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(5:37c) "...nonknowledge ... extrapolations are inseparable from lived

experienceFr=?, and they form, if you will, class subjectivitylived. After processing they will

become the clearest of what we call ideologies..."

Sartre\Language&Comprehension-Chris (Ms.) Weedon and Lois McNay:

Poststructuralists hinge language to social construction, with Weedon, Feminist Practice and

PostStructuralist Theory (p. 21) "For poststructuralistc theory, the common factor in the

analysis of social organization, social meanings, power and individual consciousness is

language... [L]anguage constructs the individual’s subjectivity in ways which are socially

specific... [S]ubjectivity is neither unified nor fixed ... but a site of disunity and conflict

central to the process of political change [or] preserving the status quo."

3-14Dial Fredric Jameson: Sartre’s term ‘totality’ has problematic past as

hyperorganism Jameson, Foreword to 2004 ed., CDR (p. xx) "...the word praxis itself in the Critique

is quickly doubled and outpaced by another [totalization]R, a true neologism this, whose

technical meaning has latterly been utterly transformed and travestied by its increasingly

central role in ideological debate. This is of course the word ‘totalization,’ which Sartre

coined specifically in order to differentiate himself from Lukács and the latter’s key word

‘totality.’ Unfortunately, the ideological connotation with which the Sartrean term has been

more recently endowed pointedly conflates these two terms, and makes Sartre over into yet

another philosopher of ‘totality’... ‘Totalizing’ has thus become a slogan which identifies a

claim to speak from above and for all of society..."

(p. xxi) "...[Lukács’s usage] has nothing whatsoever to do with Sartre’s usage.

Sartrean totalization was meant, indeed, to exclude any implication that multiples like the

‘group in fusion’ have the ontological status of a totality or an organism (of a ‘hyper

organism’ as Sartre’s text will constantly warn us). For Sartre, then, a totality is precisely a

static concept, a concept of being rather than of process, and one governed by analytic rather

than by dialectical reason.

"But these lofty philosophical issues are scarcely raised by Sartre’s use of the word

‘totalization in course’ which simply means praxis itself, organized activity with a view

towards an end; and, whatever its possible extension to collective and historical movements

and events, its relevancy begins with the behavior of individuals..."

"It is curious that Sartre should have chosen a relatively spatial word, redolent of

exteriority, to characterize even the initial forms of human activity; indeed we will find it

associated with unification as well, which compounds our sense of the incongruity of the

choice of such terms to characterize interiority and human action. Yet they evoke the

multiple and the dispersed, separation and heterogeneity, in order to dramatize what the

human project most immediately confronts and what it must most immediately overcome.

Indeed, I feel that the importance of the notion and the experience of multiplicity for Sartre

has scarcely yet been evaluated, for it arguably governs everything from the inert things and

beings of the outside world all the way to demography itself, in its twin form of

philosophical otherness and of colonial subjugation..."

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dial/lived [découvrir];

CDR (p. 34c) "...the dialectic as rationality must discoverdial/lived itself in everyday

expérienceposited, at once [à la fois] as the objectivelivedc joiningok between factsposited and as

the methodposited for knowing [connaître]lived and fixing this joiningI..."

(p. 67c) At this level we shall have to turn our attention to the way inertiaI itself

becomes dialecticallived through having this sealI placed upon it: not in so far as it is pure

inertiaI, but in so far as we must station ourselves at the point of view of inertI exterioritylived

in order to discoverdial/lived passivisedlived praxis (for example, the circulation of currency)..."

(p. 70c) "...at each stage in our expérienceposited we must rediscoverdial/lived,

within the intelligibledial/lived unity of the syntheticdial movementdial/lived, the contradiction and

indissoluble joiningcok between necessityCDRdialc and freedomCDR..."

(p. 79c) "...the crucial discoverydial/lived of dialectical expérienceposited is that

manlived is ‘mediatedlived’ by things to the same extent as things are ‘mediated’I by man..."

(p. 93c, Ftn. 4) "We shall see later that the dialectical expérienceposited is at once

[à la fois]I permanent (in that men work and always have worked), but also the result of

becoming, in that it is the discoverydial/lived at a particular point in time, of the dialectic as the

intelligibilityposited of Historyposited/1neg."

(p. 112c) "...I discoverdial/lived myself as an object and instrument of his ends

through the same actlived which constitutesdial/group him as an objectivelived instrumentI of my

ends..."

CDRII (p. 11c, Fr. 19) "...It will also be necessaryCDRdial to rediscoverdial/lived in the

singularity of each struggle, on the basis of the grouplived in which it is engendered, the three

features of dialecticallived intelligibilityposited: totalization [in course], particularizationdial and

contradictionI."

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