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About Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a 20th-century French phenomenological philosopher. Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty 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, biology, psychology, psychoanalysis, language, nature, and history. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation
  • Knowledge — The pursuit of learning, understanding, and intellectual growth

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