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'''''Critique of Dialectical Reason''''' ({{lang-fr|Critique de la raison dialectique}}) is a 1960 book by the philosopher [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], in which the author further develops the existentialist Marxism he first expounded in his essay ''[[Search for a Method]]'' (1957).<ref name="Baldwinarticle">{{cite book |author=Baldwin, Thomas |editor=Honderich, Ted |title=The Oxford Companion to Philosophy |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2005 |page=835 |isbn=0-19-926479-1 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> ''Critique of Dialectical Reason'' and ''Search for a Method'' were written as a common manuscript, with Sartre intending the former to logically precede the latter.<ref name="Search">{{cite book |author1=Barnes, Hazel |author2=Sartre, Jean-Paul |title=Search for a Method |publisher=Vintage Books |location=New York |year=1968 |pages=ix-x |isbn=0-394-70464-9 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> ''Critique of Dialectical Reason'' was Sartre's second large-scale philosophical treatise, ''[[Being and Nothingness]]'' (1943) having been the first.<ref name="Baldwinarticle" /> ''CritiqueThe of Dialectical Reason''book has been seen by some as an abandonment of Sartre's original [[existentialism]],<ref name="Kołakowski" /> while others have seen it as a continuation and elaboration of his earlier work.<ref name="Catalano" /> It was translated into English by [[Alan Sheridan|Alan Sheridan-Smith]].<ref name="Critiquevolume1" />
 
The first volume, "Theory of Practical Ensembles", was first published in English in 1976; a corrected English translation was published in 1991, based on the revised French edition of 1985.<ref name="Critiquevolume1">{{cite book |author=Sartre, Jean-Paul |title=Critique of Dialectical Reason Volume 1: Theory of Practical Ensembles |publisher=Verso |location=London |year=1991 |page=4 |isbn=0 86091 757 6 |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref> The second volume, "The Intelligibility of History", was published posthumously in French in 1985 with an English translation by [[Quintin Hoare]] appearing in 1991.<ref name="Critiquevolume2">{{cite book |author=Sartre, Jean-Paul |title=Critique of Dialectical Reason Volume 2: The Intelligibility of History |publisher=Verso |location=London |year=1991 |page=iv |isbn= |oclc= |doi= |accessdate=}}</ref>