Merleau-Ponty's Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy

Bringing to light the essential philosophical role of Marxism within Merleau-Ponty''s reinterpretation of transcendental phenomenology, this book shows that the realization of this project hinges methodologically upon a renewed conception of the proletariat qua universal class-specifically, that it rests upon a humanist myth of incarnation which, substantiated by Merleau-Ponty''s notion of ''heroi...