"There are perpetual debates about the extent of freedom in politics. Are we free to choose? Are we overdetermined by our material conditions? Some hybrid between the two? In this text, Austin Hayden Smidt analyzes an oft-overlooked text by Jean-Paul Sartre in order to ground a logical framework for exploring this problem"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Glossary of Terms
• Introduction
• Part I: The Living Logic of Action in Critique of Dialectical Reason
  • 1 Dialectical Reason and the Paradoxico-Critical Orientation of Thought
  • 2 Dialectical Logic and the Pervasion of Seriality
  • 3 The Field of Possibles
  • 4 Pluridimensional Seriality
  • 5 Freedom and the Logic of the Group
• Part II: Toward an Imaginative Logic of Action
  • 6 The Logic of Poetic Imagination
  • 7 A Tale of Two Logics
  • 8 Creating Society as a Work of Art
  • 9 Prolegomena to Any Future Critique of Political Economy
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author