Merleau-Ponty and Marxism

From Terror to Reform

By:

Barry Cooper

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Heritage

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Influenced by Kojève's interpretation of Hegel as well as his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty abandoned the religious and philosophical position he had assumed in the 1930s and turned to Marxism. This is the first critical study of the French philosopher's political ideas and the context in which they evolved. In its origin and its development, Merleau-Ponty's political thought expressed a subtle dialectic between ongoing political events and the apparent truths of Marx's analysis. With the onset of the cold war, the discovery of the Soviet concentration camps, the repression of Eastern Europe, the Algerian crisis, and the founding of the Fifth Republic, Merleau-Ponty began to take a critical look at Marx's ideas of the genesis of humanism in the light of these disturbing political realities. His reconsideration of the basis of Marxism and his conclusion that it had lost contact with history led to a fundamental reorientation of his attitudes. No longer sympathetic to the use of violence to end violence, he criticized Sartre's external justification of communist violence as 'magical' and advocated instead a new liberalism combining parliamentary democracy with an awareness of the social problems of industrial capitalism. Barry Cooper's study of this important contemporary thinker gives context for an understanding of Merleau- Ponty's politics and, in so doing, brings together the complex issues and ideas that have shaped modern European political and philosophical thought.

Author Biography:

Barry Cooper is a professor of the Department of Political Science at the University of Calgary. He taught at Bishop's University, McGill, and York University before coming to the University of Calgary in 1981.

Release date Australia

December 15th, 1979

Author

Barry Cooper

Series

Heritage

Pages

240

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Dimensions

152x229x13

ISBN-13

9781442639355

Product ID

35959444

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