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Maurice Merleau-Ponty (French: [mɔʁis mɛʁlopɔ̃ti]; 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 and politics.

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birth date
1908-03-14
birth place
Charente-Maritime, Rochefort Charente-Maritime, France
death date
1961-05-03, 1961-05-04
death place
Paris, France
era
20th-century philosophy
influenced
David Abram
influenced by
Henri Bergson
LCCN Id
n/79/56034
main interest
Aesthetics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Perception, Psychology, Gestalt psychology, Embodiment, Western Marxism
notableIdea
Invagination, Phenomenology of Perception
philosophicalSchool
Post-structuralism, Structuralism, Phenomenology (philosophy), Existential phenomenology, Western Marxism
region
Western philosophy

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