1st Edition

Phenomenology and the Social World The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and its Relation to the Social Sciences

By Laurie Spurling Copyright 1977
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The term ‘phenomenology’ has become almost as over-used and emptied of meaning as that other word from Continental Philosophy, namely ‘existentialism’. Yet Husserl, who first put forward the phenomenological method, considered it a rigorous alternative to positivism, and in the hands of Merleau-Ponty, a disciple of Husserl in France, phenomenology became a way of gaining a disciplined and... Read more

Preface  Introduction  1. The Programme of Existential Phenomenology  2. Speech  3. Society  4. Marxism  5. Ethics  6. Philosophy  7. Conclusion

Biography

Laurie Spurling