Maurice Merleau-Ponty



 

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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born
March 14, 1908

died
May 03, 1961

gender
male

place of birth
Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France

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genre
Philosophy, Nonfiction

influences
Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Nietzsche, Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Arendt


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Maurice Merleau-Ponty (pronounced [mɔʁis mɛʁlopɔ̃ti:] in French; March 14, 1908 – May 3, 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is a sustained argument for the foundational role that perception plays in understanding the world as well as engaging with the world. Like the other major phenomenologists Merleau-Ponty expressed his philosophical insights in writings on art, literature, and politics; however Merleau-Ponty was the only major phenomenologist of the first half of the Twentieth Century to engage extensively with the sciences, and es...more




books by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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avg rating: 4.32 | 508 ratings | 41 distinct works
Phenomenology of Perception Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.60 — 112 ratings — published 2002
7 editions
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The Visible and the Invisible The Visible and the Invisible (SPEP)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.27 — 41 ratings — published 1969
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The Primacy of Perception: And... The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics (SPEP)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.28 — 29 ratings — published 1964
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Sense and Nonsense Sense and Nonsense (SPEP)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.00 — 8 ratings — published 1992
4 editions
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Nature: Course Notes from the... Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France (Paperback)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 2003
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Structure of Behavior Structure of Behavior (Paperback)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1983
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Humanism and Terror: An Essay... Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem (Paperback)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1990
4 editions
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The Prose of the World The Prose of the World (SPEP)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1973
2 editions
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The World of Perception The World of Perception (Hardcover)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 2004
2 editions
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Signs Signs (Hardcover)
by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 1964
4 editions
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quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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"The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. "
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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"“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.""
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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