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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
AuthorBooks · Second hand1908-1961
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes, the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945.
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About Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Birth
1908
Death
1961
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, politics, religion, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes, the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a central figure in 20th-century French phenomenology.
His masterpiece, Phenomenology of Perception, revolutionized our understanding of how we experience the world.
Beyond pure philosophy, he stood out as an influential theorist of art and aesthetics.
His thought innovatively integrated findings from Gestalt psychology with ontology.
Born in Rochefort, he dedicated his life to exploring the deep connection between the human body and perception.
