This contribution explores power and solidarity in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, bringing together his reflections on the social world in Phenomenology of Perception with his appraisal of sociology and Marxism in Signs and Adventures of the Dialectic . I argue that Merleau-Ponty reconfigures power as the crystallization of social interest that connects individuals and groups despite the...
Recent developments in social theory, and especially in movement research, have deepened our understanding of the self-instituting and self-transformative capabilities of society. However, as the case of Alain Touraine's notion of historicity shows, there is a real danger that social praxis is being reduced to the function of self-thematization and self-programming, enshrining society in a...