See Also: Merleau-Ponty, Maurice(encyclopedia)
Lev, Maurice(medicine)
Ravel, Maurice(dictionary)
Chevalier, Maurice(encyclopedia)
Utrillo, Maurice(encyclopedia)
Maurice (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Maurice of Nassau(encyclopedia)
Richard, Maurice(dictionary)
Thorez, Maurice(encyclopedia)
Vlaminck, Maurice de(encyclopedia)

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (sh)




born March 14, 1908, Rochefort, France
died May 4, 1961, Paris

French philosopher.

With Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir he founded the journal Les Temps Modernes in 1945. From 1949 he taught at the Sorbonne. He was the leading exponent of phenomenology in France. Though greatly influenced by Edmund Husserl, he rejected Husserl's theory of our knowledge of other persons, grounding his own view instead in bodily behaviour and perception. He defended Soviet communism until the Korean War, when he became disillusioned.