Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics

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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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Autor principal: Whiteside, Kerry H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, > 1908-1961.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, > 1908-1961 > Political and social views.
Political and social views.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Existentialism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 into the foundation for a philosophically consistent mode of political thinking. This study discusses the inadequacies Merleau-Ponty found in the traditional philosophies of empiricism and idealism, and then examines the subject-object dualism that he believed deprived previous forms of existentialism of po.
Notas:Cover; Contents.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781400859733

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