29 October 2016

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (continued): #17: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

'MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
ROCHEFORT-SUR-MER
14 MARS 1908
PARIS 3 MAI 1961'

Maurice was a leading philosopher of phenomenology and an editor of Sartre's Les Temps modernes (est. 1945), although his rift with Sartre – over several issues but essentially politics – came in 1952. He followed Edmund Husserl's philosphy, a major work being La Phénoménologie de la Perception (1945).

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