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Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology and the realization of philosophy

By Maurice , Smyth , Bryan A.; Merleau-Ponty

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
1780937059, 9781780937052, 9781780937878, 1780937873
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1220208 bytes)
Series
Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy
Pages
204\241
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
-- 1908-1961. Phenomenology. Heroes. Courage. PHILMauriceMerleau-Ponty

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Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges methodologically upon a renewed conception of the proletariat qua universal class―specifically, that it rests upon a humanist myth of incarnation which, substantiated by Merleau-Ponty's notion of ‘heroism', locates an objective historical purposiveness in the habituated organism of the modern subject. Foregrounding the phenomenological priority of history over corporeality in this way, Smyth's analysis recovers the ‘militant' character of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology. It thus sheds critical new light on his early thought, and challenges some of the main parameters of existing scholarship by disclosing the intrinsic normativity of his basic methodological commitments.

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