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Critique de la raison dialectique, volume I, is published

In 1960 Gallimard published Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique de la raison dialectique, volume I, an unfinished-system attempt to join existential freedom to dialectical history, distinct from the 1943 ontology. In the causal graph this event strengthens Digital Learning Access, a driver that weakens Learning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries) — an improving welfare path.

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In 1960 Gallimard published Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique de la raison dialectique, volume I, an unfinished-system attempt to join existential freedom to dialectical history, distinct from the 1943 ontology. Groups, seriality, and the fused group are the teaching objects. Marxist lock-in as a cost is a neighbouring political row, not this volume’s existence as access.

Context

Hungarian 1956 had already strained fellow-travel. The Critique is a philosophical answer, not a clean break. Sharing print with Gallimard does not erase the author.

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Why it matters

Education path, modest-to-mid weight, medium confidence on uptake. High confidence on 1960 publication of volume I.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Jean-Paul Sartre

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He authored the 1960 Critique, volume I. Gallimard printed it; volume II remained unfinished in his lifetime as a finished book.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

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  1. 1.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Jean-Paul SartreStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Éditions Gallimard — portalÉditions Gallimard · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Gallimard at https://www.gallimard.fr/ (opens in a new tab) is the official publisher of the Critique. SEP at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sartre/ (opens in a new tab) independently dates the 1960 Critique as the later system, unfinished.

Established: Critique de la raison dialectique I appeared in 1960. Not established: that volume II is a finished lifetime book he issued as such. Contribution is recorded as He authored the 1960 Critique, volume I. Gallimard printed it; volume II remained unfinished in his lifetime as a finished book. The impact note is A public attempt to think Marxism and freedom together is a modest education path, not a party congress. The dated heading stays Critique de la raison dialectique, volume I, is published on 1960-04-01, not a later statue, UNESCO listing, or school film. Later competitions, monuments, and adaptations are refused as extra lifetime acts of this person on this date.

The contribution type is direct. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. 1960 Critique is not the 1943 Néant. Mixed effects of Critique de la raison dialectique, volume I, is published are separate paths.

Shared responsibility is part of Critique de la raison dialectique, volume I, is published. Naming Jean-Paul Sartre does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1960-04-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorJean-Paul Sartre
  2. contributed toFactCritique de la raison dialectique, volume I, is published
  3. strengthensDriverDigital Learning Access
  4. weakensIndicatorLearning Poverty Rate (low- and middle-income countries)

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Factrail. (2026). Critique de la raison dialectique, volume I, is published. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sartre-critique-1960

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Accessed 15 October 2026.

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