01851    a2200265   450000500170000000800390001702000220005603700360007804000070011404100080012107200170012907200160014607200160016207200150017807200130019307200140020607200210022007200180024110000260025924500240028525000060030926000320031530000100034752012280035720250526161928.0250430042022GB                   eng    a9781032341149qBC  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 17.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aQDHR52thema7 aQDTS2thema7 aJPFC2thema7 aHPCF32bic7 aHPS2bic7 aJPFC2bic7 aPOL0000002bisac7 a335.432bisac1 aMaurice Merleau-Ponty10aHumanism and Terror  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20220915  a152 p  bFirst published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror is a vital work of political philosophy by one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. Attempting to understand what he called the "dislocated world" that followed immediately after the Second World War—including his own, divided France—Merleau-Ponty asks a fundamental question: how did Marxism and humanism come apart? Through a fascinating reading of Arthur Koestler's famous novel, Darkness at Noon , an allegory of the Stalinist show trials and purges of the 1930s, Merleau-Ponty weighs up the costs of a regime of permanent revolution and false confessions. His profound and controversial point, however, is that the purges were the inevitable outcome of abandoning crucial subjective elements of Marx’s theory of history, with the result that "humanism is suspended and government is terror." As we again confront the reality of authoritarianism, political polarisation and curtailing of human freedom, the dislocated world brilliantly depicted by Merleau-Ponty in Humanism and Terror sends a powerful and articulate message that continues to resonate today. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by William McBride.