biography
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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pronunciation:
[mairloh põtee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–61)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Rochefort-sur-mer, W France. He studied in Paris, taught in various lycées, and served as an army officer in World War 2, before holding professorships at Lyon (1948) and Paris (from 1949). He helped Sartre and de Beauvoir found the journal Les Temps Modernes in 1945, and was a fellow-traveller with Sartre in the Communist Party in the early post-war years. His two main philosophical works are La Structure du comportement (1942, The Structure of Behaviour) and Phénoménologie de la perception (1945, Phenomenology of Perception) which investigate the nature of consciousness, and reject the extremes of both behaviouristic psychology and subjectivist accounts. |
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