Search results
Sep 14, 2016 · Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), French philosopher and public intellectual, was the leading academic proponent of existentialism and phenomenology in post-war France.
- Feminist Perspectives on The Body
For much of the history of western philosophy the body has...
- Touch
Citing groundbreaking work on the relation between tactual...
- Consciousness and Intentionality
On Merleau-Ponty’s account, ordinarily, when you see an...
- Existentialist Aesthetics
1. Metaphysical foundations of existentialist aesthetics....
- Continental Feminism
Megan Burke (2019) takes up Beauvoirian concepts to explore...
- Beauvoir, Simone De
In 1945, she helped found the leftist journal Les Temps...
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
Few philosophers have been as famous in their own life-time...
- Phenomenology
The historical movement of phenomenology is the...
- Feminist Perspectives on The Body
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908—1961) Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work is commonly associated with the philosophical movement called existentialism and its intention to begin with an analysis of the concrete experiences, perceptions, and difficulties, of human existence.
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty [2] ( French: [mɔʁis mɛʁlo pɔ̃ti, moʁ-]; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty (born March 14, 1908, Rochefort, Fr.—died May 4, 1961, Paris) was a philosopher and man of letters, the leading exponent of Phenomenology in France. Merleau-Ponty studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and took his agrégation in philosophy in 1931.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 17, 2023 · French 20th century philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty identified a long line of dualist philosophers, perhaps chief amongst them Plato and Descartes, who had tried to separate perception from the bodies that do perception.
Sep 14, 2016 · Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), French philosopher and public intellectual, was the leading academic proponent of existentialism and phenomenology in post-war France.
Aug 28, 2018 · Merleau-Ponty (b. 1908–d. 1961) was a major 20th-century French philosopher and contributor to phenomenology. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure from 1926 to 1930, received the aggrégation in philosophy in 1930 and the Docteur ès lettres in 1945.