Maurice Merleau-Ponty





Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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March 14, 1908 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Maritime, France

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May 03, 1961

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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 especially...more


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Phenomenology of Perception
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The Visible and the Invisible
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The Primacy of Perception: ...
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Sense and Nonsense
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The World of Perception
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Signs
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Humanism and Terror: An Ess...
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L'oeil et l'esprit
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Structure of Behavior
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The Prose of the World
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More books by Maurice Merleau-Ponty…
“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

“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

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