Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics.
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...
Saved in:
Online Access: |
Full text (MCPHS users only) |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2014
|
Series: | Studies in moral, political, and legal philosophy.
|
Subjects: | |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Summary: | 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. |
---|---|
Item Description: | Cover; Contents. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (349 pages) |
ISBN: | 9781400859733 1400859735 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |