PHILOSOPHER

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

1908 - 1961

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Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty ( MUR-loh PON-tee; French: [mɔʁis mɛʁlo pɔ̃ti]; 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961) 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 established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945. At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is a sustained argument for the foundational role that perception plays in the human experience of the world. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maurice Merleau-Ponty is the 183rd most popular philosopher (up from 192nd in 2019), the 416th most popular biography from France (up from 428th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Philosopher.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French philosopher, and he is most famous for his work in phenomenology. He was also a professor of philosophy at the University of Lyon.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty ranks 183 out of 1,267. Before him are Hippias, Jean Buridan, Ram Mohan Roy, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Carl Schmitt, and Cesare Beccaria. After him are Claude Adrien Helvétius, Jean Baudrillard, Sextus Empiricus, José Ortega y Gasset, Bernard Bolzano, and Gemistus Pletho.

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Among people born in 1908, Maurice Merleau-Ponty ranks 19. Before him are Edward Teller, Willard Van Orman Quine, Olivier Messiaen, Hannes Alfvén, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Don Bradman. After him are Simon Wiesenthal, Bette Davis, Anna Magnani, John Bardeen, Ian Fleming, and David Oistrakh. Among people deceased in 1961, Maurice Merleau-Ponty ranks 13. Before him are Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Lee de Forest, Jules Bordet, Gary Cooper, and Percy Williams Bridgman. After him are Edith Wilson, Mohammed V of Morocco, Maria of Yugoslavia, Frantz Fanon, Otto Loewi, and Rafael Trujillo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Merleau-Ponty ranks 416 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Dubuffet (1901), Paul Valéry (1871), Paul Sabatier (1854), Jean-Paul Gaultier (1952), Claude Bernard (1813), and James I of Aragon (1208). After him are Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Hortense de Beauharnais (1783), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Alfred Kastler (1902), Jérôme Bonaparte (1784), and Jean Baudrillard (1929).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Maurice Merleau-Ponty ranks 19. Before him are Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Paul Ricœur (1913), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Jean Buridan (1295), and Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709). After him are Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Pierre Gassendi (1592), Pierre Bayle (1647), Ernest Renan (1823), and Nicolas Malebranche (1638).

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