caa a22 4500 46316556X CHVBK 20180406164800.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11007-007-9053-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11007-007-9053-6 Flynn Bernard Empire State College, State University of New York, 225 Varick Street, 10014, New York, NY, USA aut The development of the political philosophy of Merleau-Ponty [Elektronische Daten] Humanism and the rejection of terror [Bernard Flynn] This article follows the development of Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy from his 1947 text, Humanism and Terror, through a number of essays in the Adventures of the Dialectic, to the Preface to Signs published in 1959. It shows the process by which Merleau-Ponty escaped the "grip of marxism” as a philosophy of history. It notes the link between his philosophy of history and the concrete historical events of his times, particularly the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into Stalinism. It suggests a certain analogy between Merleau-Ponty's reflection on the October Revolution and Kant's reflection on the French Revolution. The notion of the universal class of the proletariat is the guiding thread in the analyses of both Merleau-Ponty's proximity to marxism and the process by which he frees himself from its grip. We observe the role that this concept plays in Humanism and Terror and in the essays on Weber and Lukacs in the Adventure of the Dialectic where we eventually see its dissolution. It is argued that Merleau-Ponty arrives at a new conception of historical meaning which is neither totalizing or empiricist. The paper concludes by presenting an outline of the direction that his philosophy of history took after he extricated himself from marxism. This new philosophy took the form of a critical reflection on the role of the "notion of the hero” in 20th century political philosophy in general, particularly in Heidegger and Sartre. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Marxism nationallicence Universal class nationallicence Proletariat nationallicence Historical meaning nationallicence Russian Revolution nationallicence Lukacs nationallicence Weber nationallicence Elective affinity nationallicence Dialectic nationallicence Democracy nationallicence Phenomenology nationallicence Arendt nationallicence Reification nationallicence Hero nationallicence Virtu nationallicence Machiavelli nationallicence Continental Philosophy Review Kluwer Academic Publishers 40/2(2007-06-01), 125-138 1387-2842 40:2<125 2007 40 11007 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-007-9053-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-007-9053-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Flynn Bernard Empire State College, State University of New York, 225 Varick Street, 10014, New York, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Continental Philosophy Review Kluwer Academic Publishers 40/2(2007-06-01), 125-138 1387-2842 40:2<125 2007 40 11007 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer