Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
Running through some of the most beloved texts in Western political philosophy. They are loved for their ingenuity and beauty. But they are respected and believed for their screeching authoritarianism. You might see episodes on...Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau. Hegel, Nietzsche, Zizek, Pettit, etc.
Totalitarians of Western Philosophy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Cheering for Show Trials and Liquidations
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Little Crispy
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Season 1
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Episode 10
(One of) the most disturbing book(s) I've ever read is Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Humanism and Terror.
"To tell the truth and act out of conscience are nothing but alibis of a false morality." (Humanism and Terror, chapter 4)