Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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existentialist philosopher human phenomenologist philosopher

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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Statements (86)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	existentialist philosopher → human → phenomenologist → philosopher →
academicDegree	agrégation in philosophy →
almaMater	École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED →
associatedWith	Jean-Paul Sartre → Simone de Beauvoir → journal Les Temps modernes →
birthCountry	France →
birthDate	1908-03-14 →
birthPlace	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	University of Paris NERFINISHED → École Normale Supérieure NERFINISHED →
employer	Collège de France NERFINISHED → University of Lyon NERFINISHED → University of Paris NERFINISHED →
era	20th-century philosophy →
ethnicGroup	French →
familyName	Merleau-Ponty →
fieldOfWork	aesthetics → ontology → philosophical anthropology → philosophy of mind → philosophy of perception → political philosophy →
genre	philosophical essay →
givenName	Maurice →
hasChild	two children →
influenced	Alphonso Lingis → Claude Lefort → Emmanuel Levinas → Hubert Dreyfus → Jean-Paul Sartre → Judith Butler → Paul Ricœur → Shaun Gallagher → contemporary embodied cognition theory →
influencedBy	Edmund Husserl → G. W. F. Hegel → Gestalt psychology → Henri Bergson → Martin Heidegger →
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned	French →
mainInterest	embodiment → intentionality → lived experience → perception →
memberOf	Collège de France NERFINISHED →
movement	continental philosophy → existentialism → phenomenology →
name	Maurice Merleau-Ponty →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableIdea	body-subject → flesh of the world → pre-reflective experience → primacy of perception →
notableWork	Adventures of the Dialectic → Humanism and Terror → Phenomenology of Perception → Sense and Non-Sense → Signs → The Structure of Behavior → The Visible and the Invisible →
philosophicalSchool	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 → La structure du comportement → Le visible et l’invisible → Les aventures de la dialectique → Phénoménologie de la perception → Sens et non-sens → Signes →

Referenced by (10)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alexandre Kojève → Henri Bergson → Jean-Paul Sartre → Martin Heidegger → Phenomenology of Mind → Phenomenology of Spirit →	influenced
Western Marxism →	associatedWith
Maurice Merleau-Ponty ("Merleau-Ponty") →	familyName
Pierre Bourdieu →	influencedBy
Maurice Merleau-Ponty →	name