The Critique de la raison dialectique is a nineteenth-century man's magnificent and pathetic attempt to think the twentieth century. In that sense, Sartre is the last Hegelian and, I would even say, the last Marxist.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The Critique de la raison dialectique is a nineteenth-century man's magnificent and pathetic attempt to think the twentieth century. In that sense, Sartre is the last Hegelian and, I would even say, the last Marxist." in the context of "Michel Foucault, .'L'Homme est-il mort?' Arts et loisirs 38, 15 June 1966, p. 8., quoted in David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault (1993)
• The Critique of Dialectical Reason is the magnificent and pathetic attempt by a man of the nineteenth century to think the twentieth century. In that sense, Sartre is the last Hegelian and, I would even say, the last Marxist.
 • Michel Foucault, .'L'Homme est-il mort?' Arts et loisirs 38, 15 June 1966, p. 8., quoted in Thomas R. Flynn, Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason, Volume One: Toward an Existentialist Theory (1997)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.