Merleau-Ponty
Americannoun
noun
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Of this lineup of serial offenders, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty had prior convictions, mostly for communism, and only Barthes had a sense of humor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
Merleau-Ponty argued that we cannot separate perception or consciousness from the body, as we perceive the outside world through our bodies.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
Bakewell points out that much of what Camus, Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir thought and did “only makes sense in context”.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016
A tacked-up card that said, "The world is everything that is the case", a Black Panthers poster, something in German by Hegel, something in French by Merleau-Ponty.
From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012
Its intellectual roots date back to early 20 century philosophers Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and John Dewey and it has only been studied empirically in the last few decades.
From Scientific American • Nov. 4, 2011
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