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Through a fascinating reading of Arthur Koestler's famous novel, Darkness at Noon, an allegory of the Stalinist show trials and purges of the 1930s, Merleau-Ponty weighs up the costs of a regime of permanent revolution and false confessions. His profound and controversial point, however, is that the purges were the inevitable outcome of abandoning crucial subjective elements of Marx's theory of history, with the result that "humanism is suspended and government is terror."
As we again confront the reality of authoritarianism, political polarisation and curtailing of human freedom, the dislocated world brilliantly depicted by Merleau-Ponty in Humanism and Terror sends a powerful and articulate message that continues to resonate today.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by William McBride.
Through a fascinating reading of Arthur Koestler's famous novel, Darkness at Noon, an allegory of the Stalinist show trials and purges of the 1930s, Merleau-Ponty weighs up the costs of a regime of permanent revolution and false confessions. His profound and controversial point, however, is that the purges were the inevitable outcome of abandoning crucial subjective elements of Marx's theory of history, with the result that "humanism is suspended and government is terror."
As we again confront the reality of authoritarianism, political polarisation and curtailing of human freedom, the dislocated world brilliantly depicted by Merleau-Ponty in Humanism and Terror sends a powerful and articulate message that continues to resonate today.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by William McBride.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in 1908 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France. Drawn to philosophy from a young age, Merleau-Ponty would go on to study alongside Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil at the famous École Normale Supérieure. He completed a Docteur ès lettres based on two dissertations, La structure du comportement (1942) and Phénoménologie de la perception (1945). After a brief post at the University of Lyon, Merleau-Ponty returned to Paris in 1949 when he was awarded the Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy at the Sorbonne. In 1952 he became the youngest philosopher ever appointed to the prestigious Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1961 aged fifty-three, at the height of his career. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition William McBride Author's Preface Part 1: Terror 1. Koestler's Dilemmas 2. Bukharin and the Ambiguity of History 3. Trotsky's Rationalism Part 2: The Humanist Perspective 4. From the Proletarian to the Commissar 5. The Yogi and the Proletarian Conclusion. Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
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Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9781032341149 |
ISBN-10: | 1032341149 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Merleau-Ponty, Maurice |
Hersteller: | Routledge |
Maße: | 216 x 140 x 11 mm |
Von/Mit: | Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.09.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,254 kg |
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in 1908 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France. Drawn to philosophy from a young age, Merleau-Ponty would go on to study alongside Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil at the famous École Normale Supérieure. He completed a Docteur ès lettres based on two dissertations, La structure du comportement (1942) and Phénoménologie de la perception (1945). After a brief post at the University of Lyon, Merleau-Ponty returned to Paris in 1949 when he was awarded the Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy at the Sorbonne. In 1952 he became the youngest philosopher ever appointed to the prestigious Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1961 aged fifty-three, at the height of his career. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition William McBride Author's Preface Part 1: Terror 1. Koestler's Dilemmas 2. Bukharin and the Ambiguity of History 3. Trotsky's Rationalism Part 2: The Humanist Perspective 4. From the Proletarian to the Commissar 5. The Yogi and the Proletarian Conclusion. Index
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2022 |
---|---|
Genre: | Geschichte |
Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
ISBN-13: | 9781032341149 |
ISBN-10: | 1032341149 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Ausstattung / Beilage: | Paperback |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Merleau-Ponty, Maurice |
Hersteller: | Routledge |
Maße: | 216 x 140 x 11 mm |
Von/Mit: | Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 15.09.2022 |
Gewicht: | 0,254 kg |