Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Luca Basso -- Copyright Page / Luca Basso -- Dedication / Luca Basso -- Introduction / Luca Basso -- Part 1 Sartre: From Descartes to Marx -- Chapter 1 The Invention Of Human Freedom: Descartes Beyond Descartes / Luca Basso -- Chapter 2 ‘Fused Group’ And Fraternité : Between Rousseau And The French Revolution / Luca Basso -- Chapter 3 The Novum Of Communism Between Freedom And Equality: Marx / Luca Basso -- Part 2 Sartre and the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4 Common Praxis And History: From the Russian Revolution To The Soviet Union / Luca Basso -- Chapter 5 Seriality And Bureaucratisation: A Reified Equality / Luca Basso -- Chapter 6 The ‘Spectre’ Of 1968: Critique Of Colonialism And New Spaces Of Emancipation / Luca Basso -- Chapter 7 The Invention Of The ‘Singular Universal’ / Luca Basso -- Back Matter -- Bibliography / Luca Basso -- Index of Names / Luca Basso.

Gilles Deleuze's assertion that 'Sartre knew how to invent the New' suggests a vital aspect of the French philosopher, one that departs from the image that has often been presented of him. Sartre’s post-1956 critique of the Stalinist USSR, together with the increasing prominence of anti-colonial struggles and a series of experiences that would find their condensation in 1968, pushed him to a continuous rearticulation of his political ideas, on the basis of an intense confrontation with Marx. In Basso’s lucid study, here newly translated into English, the expression 'singular universal' seeks to capture the revolutionary potential of individual and collective subjects, illuminating the close but also unstable relationship between history and politics.

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