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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In the following essay, Bannan discusses Merleau-Ponty's attempts to reconcile religion with philosophy.
“It is characteristic of man to think God, but this does not mean that God exi...
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In the following essay, Coyne discusses Merleau-Ponty's attempts to create a “gestural” theory of linguistics.
At Merleau-Ponty's untimely death in 1961, his published w...
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In the following essay, Dauenhauer examines the place of silence in both Merleau-Ponty's linguistic theories and his thoughts on political action.
Through much of his career, Merleau-Ponty w...
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In the following essay, Glenn discusses Merleau-Ponty's existential dialectic in terms of “mind and body, of temporality, and of human freedom.”
There are many respects in whic...
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In the following essay, Levin questions the notions of objective space and metaphysical reality in Merleau-Ponty's theories.
[E]very culture which has lost myth has lost, by the same token, ...
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In the following essay, Crowther explores the significance of Merleau-Ponty's theories of phenomenology to the creation and study of art.
Since Heidegger's Being and Time, the fundame...
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In the following essay, originally presented to the Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association in 1983, Walsh emphasizes the role of the Nietzschian idea of rumination in Merleau-Ponty's th...
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In the following essay, Flynn suggests what he terms “correspondences” between Merleau-Ponty's late writings and certain features of the work of French deconstructionist Jacques D...
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In the following essay, Glenn argues in favor of the primacy of Merleau-Ponty's critique of scientific behaviorism in the study of his later development of phenomenology.
For some years, stu...
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In the following essay, Silverman examines Merleau-Ponty's role in postmodernist theory.
In Merleau-Ponty's day, there would not have been a discourse about the question of Postmodern...
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In the following essay, Margolis discusses Merleau-Ponty's legacy to postmodernism.
One cannot report the relationship between postmodernism and the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: there is n...
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In the following essay, Said explores Merleau-Ponty's place in post-1930s French philosophy.
According to Emile Brehier, the distinguished philosopher and historian of philosophy, the major ...
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In the following essay, Gardiner explores affinities between the work of Merleau-Ponty and that of Mikhail Bakhtin.
Not only do we have a right to assert that others exist, but I should be inclined...
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In the following essay, Hass argues that a thorough understanding of Merleau-Ponty's reversibility thesis is fundamental to grasping his overall theories of phenomenology.
When I find again ...
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In the following essay, Rabil examines Merleau-Ponty's response to French existentialism.
We are condemned to freedom.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is other people.
—Jean-...
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In the following essay, Lanigan discusses Merleau-Ponty's influence on the study of rhetorical inquiry.
Traditional methods of rhetorical criticism are being echoed in the contemporary analy...
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In the following essay, Charlesworth examines Merleau-Ponty's concept of words and their meanings.
What is a word? What is the relation of word to thought? Where do words come from? What is ...
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In the following essay, Ihde discusses Merleau-Ponty's theories of phenomenology.
Phenomenology is a revolution in man's understanding of himself and his world. But the newness and ra...
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In the following essay, Dolgov presents an overview of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological and aesthetic system of thought.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty enjoys a special place among contemporary Frenc...
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In the following essay, Edie examines the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's unfinished philosophical system.
It is now more than fourteen years since we first heard of the untimely ...
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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 moderni...
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1908–1961)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Critical Essay by John F. Bannan
