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Moving from the recent past to the present, Aronson uses the concept of the dialectics of disaster to illuminate the deep structure of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the technological madness of the nuclear arms race. In a moving conclusion, he returns to his opening question, pointing to the only way of recreating an authentic hope beneath the Doomsday mushroom cloud. 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There follows the most cogent critical reflection on the Critique of Dialectical Reason yet to have been written-one which includes, for the first time anywhere in the world, an account of the unpublished second volume of the work, largely on the history of the USSR. Finally, Aronson surveys the miniature autobiography Flaubert, which formed the summum of Sartre's career. 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