Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics / / Kerry H. Whiteside.

Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Kerry H. Whiteside presents the political theory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), one of France's best-known twentieth-century philosophers. Whiteside argues that Merleau-Ponty's objective in his political writings was to make existentialism i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1988
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy ; 939
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Sources
  • Introduction
  • One. First Essays: The Intersection of Philosophy and Politics
  • Two. Phenomenology as a Prolegomenon to Political Theory
  • Three. Collective Meaning: Politics and Violence
  • Four. Values in an Existential Philosophy of History
  • Five. Marxism: The Radical Hypothesis
  • Six. Principles and Prejudice in Liberalism
  • Seven. The Communist Problem
  • Eight. In Search of Merleau-Ponty's Late Politics
  • Nine. Politics And Expression
  • Ten. Conclusion: Thinking Politics In Contemporary Theory
  • Bibliography
  • Index