Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) attempted to move beyond the notion of a pure experiencing consciousness, arguing in The Phenomenology of Perception in 1945 that perception is intertwined with bodily awareness and with language.
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In his posthumous work The Visible and the Invisible (1964), he argued that our experience is inherently ambiguous and elusive, and that the traditional concepts of philosophy are therefore inadequate to grasp it.
Why is Maurice Merleau-Ponty famous?
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French philosopher, one of the most significant contributors to phenomenology after Husserl.
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