Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The Visible and the Invisible

Unfinished metaphysical work on being, flesh, and ontological dimensions

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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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