Merleau-Ponty and the Phenomenological Critique of Political Science

The author uses the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to criticize the dominant approach to American political science--behaviorism. This critique rejects the claims to objectivity of political science and rather views it as the ideological foundation for the dominant trends in American politics. In addition, the book lays out the foundation for an alternative political science, based on phenomenology and marxism.

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Marvin Surkin is a professor of political science and urban studies at Long Island University and Ramapo State College (New Jersey). He is co-author of Detroit: I Do Mind Dying. A Study in Urban Revolution (South End Press) and numerous other studies in urban politics and society.