First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty\'s Essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler\'s novel, Darkness at Noon , and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two armed camps.
For Merleau-Ponty, the basic question was: given the violence in Communism, is Communism still equal to its humanist intentions? Starting with the assumption that a society is not a "temple of value-idols that figure on the front.
First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty\'s Essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler\'s novel, Darkness at Noon , and in a larger sense a contribution to the political and moral debates of a postwar world suddenly divided into two armed camps
