A vital book for understanding the use of political violence in pursuit of political ends, by one of the major French philosophers of the 20th century

Includes a fascinating chapter on Arthur Koestler’s famous novel about the 1930s ‘show trials’ in Moscow, Darkness at Noon

Extremely clearly written and still highly relevant for dealing with questions of political power and authoritarianism

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by William McBride, helpfully placing the book in the context of Merleau-Ponty’s thought as a whole