Humanism and Terror

ISBN-13: 9781032341149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty; William McBride

Opis

A vital work of political philosophy by one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century, which remains as a provocative contribution to limits on the use of violence. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by William McBride.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition William McBride   Author's Preface  Part 1: Terror  1. Koestler's Dilemmas  2. Bukharin and the Ambiguity of History  3. Trotsky's Rationalism  Part 2: The Humanist Perspective  4. From the Proletarian to the Commissar  5. The Yogi and the Proletarian  Conclusion.  Index

O autorze

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in 1908 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France. Drawn to philosophy from a young age, Merleau-Ponty would go on to study alongside Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil at the famous École Normale Supérieure. He completed a Docteur ès lettres based on two dissertations, La structure du comportement (1942) and Phénoménologie de la perception (1945). After a brief post at the University of Lyon, Merleau-Ponty returned to Paris in 1949 when he was awarded the Chair of Psychology and Pedagogy at the Sorbonne. In 1952 he became the youngest philosopher ever appointed to the prestigious Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1961 aged fifty-three, at the height of his career. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.