Maurice Merleau-Ponty
(1908-1961)
French phenomenological philosopher
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Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty (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, 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.
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14 March 1908 Rochefort-sur-Mer, France
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4 May 1961 (aged 53) Paris, France
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