Meaning and Meaninglessness - Imitomi

Japanese: 《意味と無意味》 - いみとむいみ
Meaning and Meaninglessness - Imitomi

...Things called rationality and truth are never a priori, but are established according to the degree to which this intersubjective relationship is established, and it is in this sense that Merleau-Ponty asserts that "transcendental subjectivity is nothing other than intersubjectivity." Based on this idea of ​​human existence, in the essays collected in "Humanism and Terror" (1947) and "Sense and Meaninglessness" (1948), he sheds new light on Marxist historical and political philosophy, liberating it from determinism and totalitarianism, thereby attempting to integrate existentialism and Marxism.
[Mid-term thoughts]
The critical adoption of Saussurean linguistics in the late 1940s was the catalyst, and in the 1950s his thought showed new developments in what could be called "structuralism."

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…合理性とか真理といわれるものもけっしてア・プリオリなものではなく,この相互主観的関係の成立する度合に応じて確立されてゆくものなのであり,メルロー・ポンティが〈超越論的主観性とは相互主観性にほかならない〉と主張するのもこのような意味においてである。人間的実存についてのこうした考えに立って彼は,《ヒューマニズムとテロル》(1947)や《意味と無意味》(1948)に集められた論文において,マルクス主義の歴史哲学や政治哲学に新たな照明を当て,それを決定論や全体主義から解放することによって,実存主義とマルクス主義の統合を図っている。
[中期の思想]
 1940年代末に行われたソシュール言語学の批判的摂取がきっかけとなり,50年代に入るとその思想は〈構造主義〉といってもよい方向に新たな展開を見せる。…

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