{"product_id":"merleau-ponty-and-marxism-barry-cooper-9781442639355","title":"Merleau-Ponty and Marxism: From Terror to Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by Koj钁e's interpretation of Hegel as well \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eas his direct political experience of the second world war, Maurice Merleau-Ponty \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eabandoned the religious and philosophical position he had assumed in the 1930s and \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eturned to Marxism. This is the first critical study of the French philosopher's \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epolitical ideas and the context in which they evolved. \u003cp\u003eIn its origin and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eits development, Merleau-Ponty's political thought expressed a subtle dialectic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ebetween ongoing political events and the apparent truths of Marx's analysis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the onset of the cold war, the discovery of the Soviet concentration camps, the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003erepression of Eastern Europe, the Algerian crisis, and the founding of the Fifth \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRepublic, Merleau-Ponty began to take a critical look at Marx's ideas of the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003egenesis of humanism in the light of these disturbing political realities. His \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ereconsideration of the basis of Marxism and his conclusion that it had lost contact \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewith history led to a fundamental reorientation of his attitudes. No longer \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esympathetic to the use of violence to end violence, he criticized Sartre's \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eexternal justification of communist violence as 'magical' and advocated \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003einstead a new liberalism combining parliamentary democracy with an awareness of the \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esocial problems of industrial capitalism.\u003cp\u003eBarry Cooper's study of this \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eimportant contemporary thinker gives context for an understanding of Merleau- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePonty's politics and, in so doing, brings together the complex issues and ideas \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ethat have shaped modern European political and philosophical thought. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Cooper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442639350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442639355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/1979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d","brand":"Barry Cooper","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44245237334271,"sku":"9781442639355","price":40.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_92d0c377-ed98-4d93-b580-7496a1585a1c.jpg?v=1693926910","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/merleau-ponty-and-marxism-barry-cooper-9781442639355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}