<P>First published in France in 1947, <I>Humanism and Terror </I>is a vital work of political philosophy by one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. Attempting to understand what he called the "dislocated world" that followed immediately after the Second World War¿including his own, divided France¿Merleau-Ponty asks a fundamental question: how did Marxism and humanism come apart?</P><P>Through a fascinating reading of Arthur Koestler''s famous novel, <I>Darkness at Noon</I>, 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."</P><P>As we again confront the reality of authoritarianism, political polarisation and curtailing of
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"We need a philosophy of both history and spirit to deal with the problems we touch upon here. Yet we would be unduly rigorous if we were to wait for perfectly elaborated principles before speaking philosophically of politics." Thus Merleau-Ponty...
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Gjennom en rekke fenomenologiske analyser av patologiske forstyrrelser etc. nærmer Merleau-Ponty seg en ny innsikt i subjektets kroppslige væren og den legemligjorte bevissthet og erkjennelse. Boken utgjør den første delen av hans verk Phenomenologie...
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<P>First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty¿s monumental <EM>Ph¿m¿logie de la perception </EM>signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture...
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<P><STRONG>''In simple prose Merleau-Ponty touches on his principle themes. He speaks about the body and the world, the coexistence of space and things, the unfortunate optimism of science - and also the insidious stickiness of honey,...
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