Humanism and Terror: The Communist Problem, De-Sola-Pool 9781138525504 New..

Name: Humanism and Terror: The Communist Problem, De-Sola-Pool 9781138525504 New..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Humanism and TerrorThe Communist Problem\nAuthor(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John O'Neill\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138525504, 978-1138525504\nSynopsis\nRaymond Aron called Merleau-Ponty \""the most influential French philosopher of his generation.\"" First published in France in 1947, Humanism and Terror was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two ideological armed camps. For Merleau-Ponty, the central question was: could Communism transcend its violence and intentions?\n\nThe value of a society is the value it places upon man's relation to man, Merleau-Ponty examines not only the Moscow trials of the late thirties but also Koestler's re-creation of them. He argues that violence in general in the Communist world can be understood only in the context of revolutionary activism..