Merleau-Ponty, Maurice(1908–1961)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a French philosopher associated with existential phenomenology, was the youngest philosopher ever to be appointed to the chair once occu...
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The French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) was the most original and profound thinker of the postwar French movement of existential phenomenology.Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born in Rochef...
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In a special memorial edition of Les Temps Modernes (Modern Times), published only months after Maurice Merleau-Ponty's death in 1961, the French philosopher Jean Hyppolite wrote of Merleau-Ponty: "Hi...
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