Despite being the work of one of the 20th-century’s most famous philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason has never been fully integrated into our collective philosophical consciousness. None of the book’s key concepts, from seriality to the group, have come to play an important role in other philosophers’, sociologists’, or political theorists’ work. Amongst Sartre scholars, while work on the Critique has increased steadily in recent years, in particular in France and Belgium, no critical consensus exists about the book’s overall meaning or value. On the occasion of the Critique’s 60th birthday, in this article I provide a summary of its main aims and concepts with a view to establishing a new basis for reading and discussing the book. I will argue that the Critique is a coherent and unique work of social theory that speaks to a world suffering an overwhelming wave of what Sartre calls ‘counter-finality’ in the form of climate change.

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萨特批判六十年：今天重温辩证理性批判

尽管是 20 世纪最著名的哲学家之一，让-保罗·萨特的《辩证理性批判》从未完全融入我们的集体哲学意识。这本书的关键概念，从连续性到群体，都没有在其他哲学家、社会学家或政治理论家的工作中发挥重要作用。在萨特学者中，虽然近年来关于批判的工作稳步增加，特别是在法国和比利时，但对于这本书的整体意义或价值，尚无批判性共识。值此批评 60 岁生日之际，我在本文中对其主要目标和概念进行了总结，以期为阅读和讨论本书奠定新的基础。