{"product_id":"humanism-and-terror-9781032341149","title":"Humanism and Terror","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in France in 1947, \u003ci\u003eHumanism and Terror \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 Warincluding his own, divided FranceMerleau-Ponty asks a fundamental question: how did Marxism and humanism come apart?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a fascinating reading of Arthur Koestler''s famous novel, \u003ci\u003eDarkness at Noon\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs we again confront the reality of authoritarianism, political polarisation and curtailing of human \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition \u003cem\u003eWilliam McBride\u003c\/em\u003e Author's Preface \u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Terror \u003c\/strong\u003e1. Koestler's Dilemmas 2. Bukharin and the Ambiguity of History 3. Trotsky's Rationalism \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: The Humanist Perspective \u003c\/strong\u003e4. From the Proletarian to the Commissar 5. The Yogi and the Proletarian Conclusion. \u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49984370868567,"sku":"9781032341149","price":21.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032341149.jpg?v=1739450567","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/humanism-and-terror-9781032341149","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}