NDLI: Our element: Flesh and democracy in Merleau-Ponty

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Author	Plot, Martín
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Although Merleau-Ponty’s early phenomenology of perception and his essays on art, politics, and language already showed an affinity between the aesthetic phenomena of expression and style and the political and cultural dynamics of society at large, this paper specifically focuses on his late theorizing of the notion of flesh and its relevance to his late understanding of politics and democracy. The emergence of flesh as a concept was contemporary to Merleau-Ponty’s break with Marxism as a philosophical model and with revolutionary dialectics as a political project. It is by showing that such a break was consistently grounded on his theorizing of the being flesh of both the body and of society that this paper shows Merleau-Ponty’s unique contribution to democratic theory and to contemporary political philosophy. In the course of this analysis, it will become clear that in philosophically breaking with the position of a “no that is a yes”—i.e. the model of the revolution, which implies a total negation of the given that becomes a total affirmation of the new order (dictatorship) once in power—he would politically embrace the Weberian “heroic liberalism”—or his “non-communist left”—of parliamentary democracy.
Starting Page	235
Ending Page	259
Page Count	25
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872842
Journal	Continental Philosophy Review
Volume Number	45
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731103
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-03-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Flesh Democracy Machiavelli Weber Sartre Habermas Language Dialectics Plurality Institution Revolution Political Philosophy Phenomenology Philosophy of Man
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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