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Biography

Name: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Birth Date: March 14, 1908
Death Date: May 3, 1961
Place of Birth: Rochefort-sur-Mer, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: philosopher

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Biography of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
690 words, approx. 2 pages
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 Rochefort-sur-Mer (Charente-Maritime) on March 14, 1908....
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Biography of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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: "His work has become as familiar to us as those...


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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice : Philosophy Terms
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. 1908–61. Born in Rochefort in France, he worked mainly in Lyon and Paris. He is best known for his work on the PHENOMENOLOGICAL description of the phenomena of consciousness, emphasizing particularly the role of the body. He disagrees in some...
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1908–1961) Summary
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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 occupied by Henri Bergson at the Collège de...
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty Information
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty [mɔ'ʁis mɛʁlopɔ̃'ti (March 14, 1908 – May 4, 1961) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl. Merleau-Ponty was closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Michael Levin
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In the following essay, Levin questions the notions of objective space and metaphysical reality in Merleau-Ponty's theories.
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Critical Essay by Hugh J. Silverman
11,689 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Silverman argues that Merleau-Ponty's last publication, Philosophy and Non-Philosophy since Hegel, serves as a criticism of his earlier thought and a bridge from modernism to postmodernism.
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Critical Essay by John F. Bannan
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In the following essay, Bannan discusses Merleau-Ponty's attempts to reconcile religion with philosophy.
 


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