Time and ambiguity: Reassessing Merleau-ponty on Sartrean freedom

Journal of the History of Philosophy 48 (2):pp. 207-234 (2010)
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Argues that standard interpretations of Merleau-Ponty's criticisms of Sartrean freedom fail and presents an alternative interpretation that argues that the fundamental issue concerns their different theories of time.

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William Wilkerson
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Merleau-Ponty and Pseudo-Sartreanism.Simone De Beauvoir & Veronique Zaytzeff - 1989 - International Studies in Philosophy 21 (3):3-48.
Sarte, Merleau-ponty, and human freedom.John J. Compton - 1982 - Journal of Philosophy 79 (10):577-588.

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