By Bryan Smyth
ISBN-10: 1780937059
ISBN-13: 9781780937052
Bringing to gentle the fundamental philosophical function of Marxism inside Merleau-Ponty's reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this booklet indicates that the belief of this undertaking hinges methodologically upon a renewed perception of the proletariat qua common class-specifically, that it rests upon a humanist fable of incarnation which, substantiated via Merleau-Ponty's proposal of 'heroism', locates an goal ancient purposiveness within the habituated organism of the fashionable subject.
Foregrounding the phenomenological precedence of historical past over corporeality during this means, Smyth's research recovers the 'militant' personality of Merleau-Ponty's existential phenomenology. It hence sheds severe new mild on his early suggestion, and demanding situations a few of the major parameters of latest scholarship through disclosing the intrinsic normativity of his simple methodological commitments.
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Yet that bit of news swept over you, over your narrow little life, like a wind Antoine de Saint Exupéry, “Soliloquizing Angel” 11 from the sea” (SV 137f). Man thus denotes human universality, posited as the as-yetunrealized “common goal” of humanity, a goal which could—if Spirit “breathes” appropriately—unite a world divided, for example, along political, national, or religious lines. ” It must be emphasized, though, that this vision was deeply hierarchical—Saint Exupéry was not particularly concerned with democratic egalitarianism (Carnets, 67, 187, 228; PG 182, 241; cf.
Thus, whereas Fink had stated in no uncertain terms that the productivity of the phenomenological onlooker is “not comparable to any mode of productivity pregiven in a worldly way” (SCM 86/76, emphasis added), Merleau-Ponty replies—unmistakably—that “philosophy is not the reflection of a preexisting [préalable] truth, but, like art, the realization [réalisation] of a truth” (PhP xv, emphasis added). There could not be a more concise statement of Merleau-Ponty’s methodological departure from Fink.
This view elicited a range of reactions from Merleau-Ponty’s generation. Jean-Paul Sartre, for example, who was otherwise fairly positively inclined to Saint Exupéry on account of the quasi-Heideggerian descriptions he offered of his métier (Sartre 1984, 66, 107, 146f, 327f; cf. ”20 Simone de Beauvoir had a more moderate view that struck a certain balance between these positions. She wrote that “although [Saint Exupéry] talks drivel [déconne] when he’s thinking abstractly and in general,” Terre des hommes “represents a radical change of scene, so that you feel strongly – so very, very strongly – the general possibility of another life for the human reality in general which each of us is.
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