practico-inert

is a field of activity, which despite being the outcome of a successful struggle by some group, has ceased to be responsive to that group's needs. Bureaucracy is the classic example.

The 'practico-inert' is a term coined by Jean-Paul Sartre in Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960), defined as a field of activity, which despite being the outcome of a successful struggle by some group, has ceased to be responsive to that group's needs. Bureaucracy is the classic example of a 'practico-inert.'

is a group achievement no longer serving that group's needs (because it becomes accommodated). It is the same as 'objectification'.

Sartre, Jean-Paul 'The 'practico-inert' is a term coined by Jean-Paul Sartre in Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960), defined as a field of activity, which despite being the outcome of a successful struggle by some group, has ceased to be responsive to that group's needs. Bureaucracy is the classic example of a 'practico-inert.' . . . . The 'practico-inert' is the same as 'objectification,' but Sartre has a particularly negative view of the prospects for social struggle, perhaps reflective of his experience as a 'fellow-traveller' of the French Communist Party.. . . ..The 'practico-inert' responds to the subject's continued struggle by accommodation, resisting the action of the Subject to which it owes its existence. Thus, whereas the activity of the group is intelligible as dialectic, Sartre describes the movement of the natural world and the 'practico-inert' as an 'anti-dialectic.' . . . .The demobilisation of a subject in the aftermath of a successful struggle, and struggles which achieve victory in the form of binding agreements, bureaucratic incorporation or legal regulations, typify Sartre's concerns with the 'practico-inert.' Once a group 'cools down' it leaves behind only an inert trace of its

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practico inert