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Merleau-Ponty and the Foundation of Existential Politics
By (Author) Kerry H. Whiteside
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Politics and government
320.01
Paperback
350
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
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