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The “dogmatic dialectic” considers historical becoming as a linear progression. To the dogmatic dialectic, Jean-Paul Sartre methodologically contrasts a “critical dialectic”, which is a situated dialectic, aware of its practical origin and its own relationship to the field of material conditions in which it is practised. Only the progressive-regressive method, for Sartre, is actually heuristic on the level of historical understanding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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