In:
Sartre Studies International, Berghahn Books, Vol. 27, No. 1 ( 2021-06-1), p. 76-98
Abstract:
Merleau-Ponty, in Humanism and Terror (1947), addresses the spectrum of problems related to revolutionary action. His essay, Eye and Mind (1960), is best known as a contribution to aesthetics. A common structure exists in these apparently disparate works. We must reject the illusion of subjective clairvoyance as a standard of revolutionary praxis; but also we must reject any idealised light of reason that illuminates all—that promises a history without shadows. The revolutionary nature of an act must be established as such through praxis . The creative praxes of the political revolutionary or the revolutionary artist are recognised ex post facto ; yet each involves the creation of its own new aesthetic wherein the value of that praxis is to be understood spontaneously and all at once.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1357-1559
,
1558-5476
DOI:
10.3167/ssi.2021.270105
Language:
Unknown
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Publication Date:
2021
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2136451-5
SSG:
7,30
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