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. He was the lead editor of Les Temps modernes, the leftist magazine he established with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in 1945.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Merleau-Ponty's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where he is buried with his mother Louise, his wife Suzanne, and his daughter Marianne.
Portrait of the 17th-century French philosopher René Descartes, one of the leading exponents of rationalism in the history of Western philosophy.
Photograph of the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, considered to be the father of modern linguistics.
Phenomenology (philosophy)
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of objectivity and reality as subjectively lived and experienced. It seeks to investigate the universal features of consciousness while avoiding assumptions about the external world, aiming to describe phenomena as they appear to the subject, and to explore the meaning and significance of the lived experiences.
Edmund Husserl
Martin Heidegger
Jean-Paul Sartre
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
