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Merleau-Ponty on Silos of Political Belief
University of West Florida Libraries, 1
04/30/2025–08/29/2025
Abstract
Our current state of political discourse is frustrating, to say the least. In fact, what usually counts as political discourse is a crude exchange of mean-spirited political memes, that is say, a multitude of ugly mudslinging with no genuine give and take of ideas and no attempt to find commonalities or real solutions. Given the decline of modernist thought, with its claim of the absolute certainty of Western reason, we are left with what has been labelled postmodernism, with its claim that truth is simply the construction of various linguistic groups. Yet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, displaying his characteristic sense of fairness and balance, provides an alternative to these more extreme positions. He supports a multicultural approach, and actually supplies the philosophical basis for it, and yet maintains that we must not get stuck in the relativism of specific groups, that we must seek a rational way to find commonalities and solutions, thus coming between postmodernism and modernism. The goal of “Merleau-Ponty on Silos of Belief” is to briefly present Merleau-Ponty’s position and his attempt to find solutions.
Details
- Title
- Merleau-Ponty on Silos of Political Belief
- Edition
- 1
- Resource Type
- Essay
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries; Argo Scholar Commons
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 7
- Copyright
- © August 2025
- Identifiers
- 99381474081006600
- Academic Unit
- University of West Florida Libraries; John C. Pace Library
- Language
- English