Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French phenomenologist whose Phenomenology of Perception placed the lived body at the center of experience, against Cartesian mind-body dualism. He argued that perception is always already embodied and situated. His work influenced cognitive science, dance, and disability studies.
Works
- Phenomenology of PerceptionPhilosophy of human perception grounded in embodied consciousness and experience
- The Visible and the InvisibleUnfinished metaphysical work on being, flesh, and ontological dimensions
- The Structure of BehaviorEarly philosophical investigation of how behavior and consciousness relate
- SignsEssays on meaning, sign, and communication through language and gesture
- Adventures of the DialecticCritical essays on Marxism, Sartre, and dialectical philosophy debates
- Sense and Non-SenseEssays on absurdity, language, psychology, and post-war intellectual crisis