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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 e…
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culture · French phenomenological philosopher (1908–1961) · philosopher · professor · art theorist · aesthetician · also Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty
Born 14 March 1908 · Died 3 May 1961 · Q212639
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s work brings to light phenomena which are not assimilable to noesis–noema correlation. This is particularly the case when one attends to the phenomena of the body (which is at once body-subject and body-object), subjective time (the consciousness of time is neither an act of consciousness nor an object of thought) and the other (Husserl
Insofar as I have hands, feet, a body, I sustain around me intentions which are not dependent on my decisions and which affect my surroundings in a way that I do not choose
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“s work brings to light phenomena which are not assimilable to noesis–noema correlation. This is particularly the case when one attends to the phenomena of the body (which is at once body-subject and body-object), subjective time (the consciousness of time is neither an act of consciousness nor an object of thought) and the other (Husserl”
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El confidencial: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, filósofo francés: "El cuerpo es nuestro medio de tener un mundo"
Clarin: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: “El cuerpo es el vehículo del ser del mundo, y poseer un cuerpo es, para un viviente, conectar con un medio definido”
Le Monde.fr: MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY au Collège de France
BBC: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Fabula: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Causeries [1948] (préf. inédite d'Étienne Bimbenet)
Fabula: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Conférences en Europe et premiers cours à Lyon. Inédits I (1946-1947)
AgoraVox: Le temps selon Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Anpal: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, ripartire dal corpo
Le Monde.fr: MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY EST MORT
Ärzteblatt: Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung
Of The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience, by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch, this association was extended, if only partially, to another strand of "anti-cognitivist" or post-repre
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“Insofar as I have hands, feet, a body, I sustain around me intentions which are not dependent on my decisions and which affect my surroundings in a way that I do not choose”
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Died 1961-05-03.
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“(…) fizyczne istnienie dźwięków, zarys liter na papierze czy też fizyczna obecność tych oto wyrazów zgodnie ze znaczeniem, jakie nadaje im słownik, obecność tych oto gotowych zdań nie wystarczy, by powstało znaczenie.”
At age 53, apparently while preparing for a class on René Descartes, leaving an unfinished manuscript which was posthumously published in 1964, along with a selection of Merleau-Ponty's working notes, by Claude Lefort as
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“(…) wszelkie postrzeganie, wszelkie działanie, które je zakłada (…) jest operacją, która znaki konstytuuje jako znaki, przepaja je treścią wyrażaną nie na zasadzie jakiejś uprzedniej mowy, lecz przez samą umowę ich układu i konfiguracji (…).”
(and taught there until his death in 1961), making him the youngest person to have been elected to a chair
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Was awarded his doctorate on the basis of two important books: La structure du comportement (1942) and Phénoménologie de la Perception (1945)
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Because he felt his socialist politics were not compatible with the social and political doctrine of the Catholic Church
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Became a tutor at the École Normale Supérieure (where he tutored the young Trần Đức Thảo) and taught there until 1939
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Merleau-Ponty received his DES degree (diplôme d'études supérieures, roughly equivalent to a M
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When Merleau-Ponty was five years old
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Born 1908-03-14.
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In Rochefort-sur-Mer, Charente-Inférieure (now Charente-Maritime), France
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