Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French phenomenological philosopher
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French philosopher who made perception the center of everything—how bodies experience the world, not just how minds think about it. Co-founded the influential leftist magazine Les Temps modernes with Sartre and Beauvoir in 1945.
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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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