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1 online resource (349 pages) |
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Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy |
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Studies in moral, political, and legal philosophy.
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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 |
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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 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 |
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 -- Political and social views
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 fast |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Existentialism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Political and social views
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400859733 |
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1400859735 |
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