Merleau-Ponty

Mer·leau-Pon·ty

(mĕr-lō′pôN-tē′), Maurice 1908-1961.

French phenomenologist and social critic. Author of such works as Adventures of the Dialectic (1955), he departed from classical phenomenology by emphasizing the relation between consciousness and the world.

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Merleau-Ponty

(French mɛrlopɔ̃ti)

(Biography) Maurice (mɔris). 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher

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Understanding Merleau-Ponty, Understanding Modernism

While roughly half of these essays approach Merleau-Ponty from distinctly theoretical or exegetical perspectives, a distinguishing feature of the volume is that many of the contributions are authored by artists and others situated outside philosophy narrowly construed.

DAVIS, Duane H., and William S., Hamrick, editors. Merleau-Ponty and the Art of Perception

My training in academic philosophy, in particular in the philosophies of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty, provides the context for this assemblage.

UNDERSTANDING IN A POST-TRUTH WORLD: COMPREHENSION AND CO-NAISSANCE AS EMPATHETIC ANTIDOTES TO POST-TRUTH POLITICS

Esse artigo pretende abordar aspectos da sua obra e da sua relacao com o espaco publico, esta que se expressa pela destruicao-- construcao, polos distintos, mas que se entremeiam, e que provocam um olhar sensivel no meio, aproximando assim sua obra de conceitos da fenomenologia de Merleau-Ponty no que tange a esfera do sensivel e o papel do artista contemporaneo como observador-participante analisado pelo critico Hal Foster.

Construction through destruction: skin layers of the city revealed by Vhils' work/Construcao pela destruicao: camadas de pele da cidade revelada pela obra de Vhils

By the time I'd finished it, I had cried over it on the Tube at least twice; had seized my phone to order four further books I was now desperate to read; and had dug out my old copy of Phenomenology of Perception (Merleau-Ponty, 1962), which will shortly transform from its pristine, uncracked-spine condition to being a dog-eared mess.