Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenologist whose work on perception, embodiment, and lived experience profoundly shaped continental philosophy and existentialism.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maurice Merleau-Ponty canonical | 25 |
| Merleau-Ponty | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Context triple: [Phenomenology of Spirit, influenced, Maurice Merleau-Ponty]
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Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre was a 20th-century French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist known for works such as "Being and Nothingness" and "No Exit."
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a highly influential 20th-century German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological exploration of Being, especially in his seminal work "Being and Time."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Target entity description: Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenologist whose work on perception, embodiment, and lived experience profoundly shaped continental philosophy and existentialism.
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A.
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze was a 20th-century French philosopher known for his influential work on metaphysics, difference, and desire, and for his collaborations with Félix Guattari on concepts such as rhizomes and deterritorialization.
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B.
Alexandre Kojève
Alexandre Kojève was a 20th-century Russian-French philosopher best known for his influential Paris lectures on Hegel that shaped postwar French existentialism, structuralism, and political thought.
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C.
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and social theorist known for his influential analyses of power, knowledge, and institutions in works such as "Discipline and Punish" and "The History of Sexuality."
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D.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre was a 20th-century French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist known for works such as "Being and Nothingness" and "No Exit."
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E.
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a highly influential 20th-century German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological exploration of Being, especially in his seminal work "Being and Time."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (86)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
existentialist philosopher
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human ⓘ phenomenologist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | agrégation in philosophy ⓘ |
| almaMater |
École Normale (Paris)
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surface form:
École Normale Supérieure
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| associatedWith |
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Simone de Beauvoir ⓘ journal Les Temps modernes ⓘ |
| birthCountry | France ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1908-03-14 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Rochefort
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surface form:
Rochefort-sur-Mer
|
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| coFounded | Les Temps modernes ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| deathCountry | France ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1961-05-03 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Paris ⓘ |
| describedBySource | 20th-century French phenomenologist whose work on perception, embodiment, and lived experience shaped continental philosophy and existentialism ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Panthéon-Sorbonne University
ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
École Normale (Paris) ⓘ
surface form:
École Normale Supérieure
|
| employer |
Collège de France
ⓘ
University of Lyon ⓘ Sorbonne University ⓘ
surface form:
University of Paris
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| era | 20th-century philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | French ⓘ |
| familyName |
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Merleau-Ponty
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| fieldOfWork |
aesthetics
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ontology ⓘ philosophical anthropology ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ philosophy of perception ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ |
| genre | philosophical essay ⓘ |
| givenName | Maurice ⓘ |
| hasChild | two children ⓘ |
| influenced |
Alphonso Lingis
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Claude Lefort ⓘ Emmanuel Levinas ⓘ Hubert Dreyfus ⓘ Jean-Paul Sartre ⓘ Judith Butler ⓘ Paul Ricoeur ⓘ
surface form:
Paul Ricœur
Shaun Gallagher ⓘ contemporary embodied cognition theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Edmund Husserl
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G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ Gestalt psychology ⓘ Henri Bergson ⓘ Martin Heidegger ⓘ |
| languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned | French ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
embodiment
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intentionality ⓘ lived experience ⓘ perception ⓘ |
| memberOf | Collège de France ⓘ |
| movement |
continental philosophy
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existentialism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ |
| name | Maurice Merleau-Ponty self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | French ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
body-subject
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flesh of the world ⓘ pre-reflective experience ⓘ primacy of perception ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Adventures of the Dialectic
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Humanism and Terror ⓘ Phenomenology of Perception ⓘ Sense and Non-Sense ⓘ Signs ⓘ The Structure of Behavior ⓘ The Visible and the Invisible ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
existentialism
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surface form:
French existentialism
French phenomenology ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism (cultural background) ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Suzanne Jolibois ⓘ |
| workLocation | Paris ⓘ |
| wrote |
Humanisme et terreur
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La structure du comportement ⓘ Le visible et l’invisible ⓘ Adventures of the Dialectic ⓘ
surface form:
Les aventures de la dialectique
Phenomenology of Perception ⓘ
surface form:
Phénoménologie de la perception
Sens et non-sens ⓘ Signes ⓘ |
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Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Phenomenology of Spirit
this entity surface form:
Merleau-Ponty