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I. Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau - Ponty, a French Philosopher and phenomenologist, was born on March
14th 1908. In 1930, he completed his philosophy education at the Ecole Normale Superieure, and
soon became one of the period 's leading French philosophers, during and immediately after
II. Philosophy
inside my mind.”
Phenomenology of Perception
o First French systematic work which displays the word "pMnomenologie" in its
phenomenology
o Merleau - Ponty argues that both traditional empiricism and rationalism are
Phenomenology
Perception
o focused by attention
Consciousness
Structure of Behavior
and "nature,"
Merleau - Ponty died because of a heart attack leaving an unfinished manuscript which
was posthumously published by his friend and former student, Claude Lefort.
Bibliography
https://www.philopractice.org/web/self/
The Self Is Embodied Subjectivity: Husserl and Merleau-Ponty. (n.d.) Retrieved from3.11 The