Marxism and existentialism: The political philosophy of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty book by David Archard : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

Format: Hardcover

Author: David Archard

ISBN: 9780856402029

Condition: Used - Very Good


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About the book >.>.> Jean Paul Sartre is perhaps the best known living philosopher of this century. The work of his colleague, Merleau-Ponty, is less well known. However, the work of both can be understood as an unfinished dialogue and this book undertakes something never previously done, namely a systematic comparative analysis of their political philosophies between 1929 and 1960. The book critically explores Sartre's and Merleau-Ponty's pre-war discovery of Husserl, Hegel and Heidegger; it records the crucially important impact of the Second World War and the subsequent founding of the famous review, Les Temps modernes. Dr Archard reviews the post-war writings of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, drawing on the fre-quently neglected occasional writing and journalism of both as well as their more central work. Their eventual divergence of views is shown as developing, against the background of world events, from their initial philo-sophical outlooks. The book sheds new light on the work of both Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, as well as giving a valuable concrete and historical context to the vexed question of Marxism's relation to existentialism. (LL)