Adventures of the Dialectic

Name: Adventures of the Dialectic
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty

by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Critical essays on Marxism, Sartre, and dialectical philosophy debates

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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.

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