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MERLEAU-PONTY AND THE CRISIS IN MARXISM
A LARGE NUMBER OF WORKS have been devoted to various aspects of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and to his contributions to theories of perception and language. By contrast, his
political philosophy has, at least in English-speaking countries,
passed almost unnoticed.1
This is especially surprising, for
Merleau-Ponty constantly confronted his thought with Marxism
and wrote both Humanism and Terror and Adventures of the
Dialectic for this purpose. Almost all his writings contain references to politics and political theory, and extensive treatment
is accorded to political subjects in several books.2
Since it would be impossible in the following short essay to
present Merleau-Ponty's political philosophy in its totality, I have
limited myself to one of the central problems in Marxism that
Merleau-Ponty tried to resolve, namely, the realization of the
potentially universal class, the proletariat. After a presentation
1. Even such a bo

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