Search for a Method

Search for a Method
Author	Jean-Paul Sartre
Original title	Questions de méthode
Translator	Hazel Barnes
Language	French
Subject	Marxism
Published	1957 (Éditions Gallimard, in French); 1963 (Alfred A. Knopf, in English);
Publication place	France
Media type	Print (hardcover and paperback)
Pages	132 (original edition); 228 (1968 Vintage edition)
ISBN	978-0394704647

Search for a Method or The Problem of Method (French: Questions de méthode) is a 1957 essay by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in which the author attempts to reconcile Marxism with existentialism. The first version of the essay was published in the Polish journal Twórczość; an adapted version appeared later that year in Les Temps modernes, and later served as an introduction for Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason (Paris, 1960).^[1] Sartre argues that existentialism and Marxism are compatible, even complementary, even though Marxism's materialism and determinism might seem to contradict the abstraction and radical freedom of existentialism.

^ 'Questions de méthode', Les Temps Modernes, September 1957, pp. 338-417; October 1957, pp. 658–98. 'Question de méthode', Critique de la Raison dialectique, Paris, 1960. See Ian H. Birchall, Sartre against Stalinism, pp. 173, 183

[1] 'Questions de méthode', Les Temps Modernes, September 1957, pp. 338-417; October 1957, pp. 658–98. 'Question de méthode', Critique de la Raison dialectique, Paris, 1960. See Ian H. Birchall, Sartre against Stalinism, pp. 173, 183

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