Humanism and Terror

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• Assisted by: William McBride (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781032341156
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3234115-6
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Marxism & Communism, Phenomenology and Existentialism