Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Thinkers1908 to 1961Phenomenologist

Works

  • Phenomenology of Perception (Phénoménologie de la perception), 1945

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Known for

A French phenomenologist. Phenomenology of Perception holds that perception is the ground of experience and that the lived body, not a detached mind, is where knowing begins, so the perceiving body and the perceived world cannot be separated.

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