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Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French philosopher renowned for his contributions to phenomenology. His seminal work, 'Phenomenology of Perception', delves into the nature of perception and the significance of the body in interpreting the world. Merleau-Ponty's philosophy underscores the centrality of experience and the importance of the lived body.

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“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.”

Knowledge History Expression Personal Life Subterfuge Oblique Circumlocution

Author:Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.”

Thinking World Use Vision Seeing Expression Visible Phenomenology

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not "a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.”

Thinking Mean Book Would Be Lasts Language Expression Theory Offers Intention Faithful Interiors Very Mean

Book:In Praise of Philosophy

Source: In Praise of Philosophy

“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of bringing truth into being.”

World Art Philosophy Expression Reflection Explicit Phenomenology Laying Down

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“I live in the facial expressions of the other, as I feel him living in mine.”

Feels Mines Expression Empathy Facial Facial Expression

Book:The Merleau-Ponty Reader

Source: The Merleau-Ponty Reader

About the Author

Born: March 14, 1908
Died: May 3, 1961
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 66

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Phenomenology of PerceptionRelated source material

In Praise of Philosophy and Other EssaysRelated source material

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic WritingsRelated source material

The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and PoliticsRelated source material

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The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and PaintingRelated source material

The World of PerceptionRelated source material

In Praise of PhilosophyRelated source material

L'Œil et l'EspritRelated source material

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