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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
An abstract from John Lechte's Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers. Provides a view of this thinker's intellectual development and his contribution.
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Extractions: Note: the following has been abstracted from the Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994. Specifically, Merleau-Ponty brought Saussure into his reflections and teachings on language in the late 1940s and early 1950s. During the 1950s, he was also well aware of Saussure's influence on the work of Lévi-Strauss and formed a close alliance with the latter, who eventually became his colleague at the Collège de France. From 1952, Merleau-Ponty began to develop a conception of political activity which freed itself from Sartre's naive flirtation with hard-line communism. More importantly, though, Merleau-Ponty began to sketch out a philosophical trajectory which confirmed the importance of lived experience in grasping the nature of language, perception, and the body. An outline of the main aspects of the link between perception and thought opened up in the Philosophy of Perception will help to clarify what is at stake here. "we fix our eyes steadily upon the sphere of Consciousness and study what it is that we find immanent in it.... Consciousness in itself has a being of its own which in its absolute uniqueness of nature remains unaffected by the phenomenological disconnexion." Merleau-Ponty's point of departure is Husserl's epoché. For him, however, the aim is not to remain with the structure of Descartes's philosophy of doubt, as Husserl tends to do in providing an explanation of phenomenology, but rather to go to the heart of embodied experience, which is what perception is. Pitting himself directly against the abstractness and emptiness of the Cartesian cogito - 'I think, therefore I am' - Merleau-Ponty shows that 'to be a body is to be tied to a certain world'; and he adds: 'our body is not primarily in space: it is of it'. In effect, our body is always already in the world; therefore, there is no body in-itself, a body which could be objectified and given universal status. Perception, then, is always an embodied perception, one that is what it is only within a specific context or situation. Perception in-itself does not exist.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Philosophy Books And Online Resources
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Extractions: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy by M. C. Dillon Originally published in 1988, M. C. Dillon's classic study of Merleau-Ponty is now available in a revised second edition containing a new preface and a new chapter on "Truth in Art." Dillon's general thesis is that Merleau-Ponty has developed the first genuine alternative to ontological dualism seen in Western philosophy. From his early work on the philosophical significance of the human body to his later ontology of flesh, Merleau-Ponty shows that the perennial problems growing out of dualistic conceptions of mind and body, subject and object, immanence and transcendence can be resolved within the framework of a new way of thinking based on the exemplar of the worldly embodiment of thought.. Click here to learn more about this book
Maurice Merleau-Ponty [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy]
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Extractions: Life and Works Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born on March 14th 1908, and like many others of his generation, his father was killed in World War I. He completed his philosophy education at the Ecole Normale Superieure in 1930, and rather rapidly became one of the foremost French philosophers of the period during, and immediately following World War II, where he also served in the infantry. As well as being Chair of child psychology at Sorbonne in 1949, he was the youngest ever Chair of philosophy at the College de France when he was awarded this position in 1952. He continued to fulfil this role until his untimely death in 1961, and was also a major contributor for the influential political, literary, and philosophical magazine that was Les Temps Modernes . While he repeatedly refused to be explicitly named as an editor alongside his friend and compatriot Jean-Paul Sartre, he was at least as important behind the scenes. Along with Sartre, he has frequently been associated with the philosophical movement existentialism, though he never propounded quite the same extreme accounts of freedom, anguished responsibility, and conflictual relations with others, for which existentialism became both famous and notorious. Indeed, he spent much of his career contesting and reformulating many of Sartre's positions, including a sustained critique of what he saw as Sartre's dualist and Cartesian ontology. He also came to disagree with Sartre's rather hard-line Marxism, and this was undoubtedly a major factor in what was eventually a rather acrimonious ending to their friendship. For Merleau-Ponty's assessment of their differences see
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
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Extractions: Note: the following has been abstracted from the Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994. Specifically, Merleau-Ponty brought Saussure into his reflections and teachings on language in the late 1940s and early 1950s. During the 1950s, he was also well aware of Saussure's influence on the work of Lévi-Strauss and formed a close alliance with the latter, who eventually became his colleague at the Collège de France. From 1952, Merleau-Ponty began to develop a conception of political activity which freed itself from Sartre's naive flirtation with hard-line communism. More importantly, though, Merleau-Ponty began to sketch out a philosophical trajectory which confirmed the importance of lived experience in grasping the nature of language, perception, and the body. An outline of the main aspects of the link between perception and thought opened up in the Philosophy of Perception will help to clarify what is at stake here. "we fix our eyes steadily upon the sphere of Consciousness and study what it is that we find immanent in it.... Consciousness in itself has a being of its own which in its absolute uniqueness of nature remains unaffected by the phenomenological disconnexion." Merleau-Ponty's point of departure is Husserl's epoché. For him, however, the aim is not to remain with the structure of Descartes's philosophy of doubt, as Husserl tends to do in providing an explanation of phenomenology, but rather to go to the heart of embodied experience, which is what perception is. Pitting himself directly against the abstractness and emptiness of the Cartesian cogito - 'I think, therefore I am' - Merleau-Ponty shows that 'to be a body is to be tied to a certain world'; and he adds: 'our body is not primarily in space: it is of it'. In effect, our body is always already in the world; therefore, there is no body in-itself, a body which could be objectified and given universal status. Perception, then, is always an embodied perception, one that is what it is only within a specific context or situation. Perception in-itself does not exist.
Existentialism And Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Extractions: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Biography Commentary Chronology Works ... Resources Do not use this site as a study guide. The profiles appearing within this web site are revised regularly. The pages are sometimes posted unedited or appear in outline form. My opinions constitute a small portion of this site. These documents contain excerpts from the works of others; I cite these works and encourage others to read them in their entirety. Read books about these individuals . The incomplete nature of my web site might result in misunderstanding the profiled individuals. Search Amazon.com Now: Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born 14 March 1908, before the first World War. As with many of his generation, Merleau-Ponty lost his father to the war. Few philosophers dared match wits with Jean-Paul Sartre , but Maurice Merleau-Ponty was always up to the task. The two enjoyed long discussions, with Merleau-Ponty and Sartre often agreeing on all but the most minor of points. Merleau-Ponty's split from Sartre, much like the more famous split between Camus and Sartre, was a result of Sartre's unflinching defense of the Soviet Union and its cruelty toward its own citizens. The actions of the USSR against satellite nations served only aggravated the opinions of many dedicated socialists, like Merleau-Ponty. Until his death, Merleau-Ponty remained a Marxist, but a critic of the Soviet Communist party.
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The Merleau-Ponty Circle
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Extractions: from Oxford University Press Merleau-Ponty, Maurice French phenomenologist and co-founder with Sartre of existential philosophy. Merleau-Ponty's constant target was the subject-object dualism of Cartesianism , which arguably still continued to dominate Sartre's existentialism. Drawing on Husserl's notion of a pre-predicative intentionality and on Heidegger's exposition of human existence as being-in-the-world, Merleau-Ponty developed a description of the world as the field of experience in which I find myself. Descartes's Cogito was transformed to read 'I belong to myself while belonging to the world'. Any attempt to constitute the world as an object of knowledge is always derivative in relation to that primary access to the world that Merleau-Ponty located in the body. Phenomenology of Perception (1945) established Merleau-Ponty as the pre-eminent philosopher of the body. The body is neither subject, nor object, but an ambiguous mode of existence that infects all knowledge. Merleau-Ponty drew on the critical examination of contemporary psychology and physiology presented in his first book
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Extractions: Bibliography Note: The "Discussion" section of this web site is now functional. Click on the Discussion icon from anywhere on these pages and join the conversation! The 2003 Annual Conference will be held at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada and directed by Helen Fielding. The conference website may be found at http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/M-PConference/ T he Merleau-Ponty Circle is a loosely knit organization of students, teachers, and scholars interested in the thought of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It convenes once a year, usually in September, at various colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. During this annual three day conference, philosophers, psychologists, historians, social scientists, health care specialists, political theorists, etc. present papers on different aspects of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. From time to time, collections of these papers are published.
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Extractions: MIA Encyclopedia of Marxism : Glossary of People Mediev, V. L Social Revolutionary. Deputy Minister to Kerensky for Military and Naval Affairs in July Coalition. Mehring, Franz (1846-1919) German Social Democrat, literary critic, writer and historian. Left-wing leader of the German Social Democrats. Later member of the Spartacist League and then helped found the Communist Party of Germany. Menzhinsky, Vyacheslav (1874-1934) Succeeded Felix Dzerzhinsky as head of the Soviet secret police in 1926. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1908-1961) Philosopher and literary critic and leading exponent of Phenomenology in France. Jean-Paul Sartre ) of the journal Les Temps Modernes Merleau-Ponty's most important works of philosophy were The Structure of Behaviour (1942) and Phenomenology of Perception (1945). Though greatly influenced by the work of Edmund Husserl , Merleau-Ponty rejected his theory of the knowledge of other persons, grounding his own theory in bodily behaviour and in perception. He held that it is necessary to consider the organism as a whole to discover what will follow from a given set of stimuli. For him, perception was the source of knowledge and had to be studied before the conventional sciences. Turning his attention to social and political questions, in 1947 Merleau-Ponty published a group of Marxist essays
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Extractions: Gwen Hartman Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1902-1961) was a Frech existentialist who attempts to explain the mind body relationship and neither completely holistic or dualistic. Merleau-Ponty believed that the "lived body" was not that much different than the consciousness, hence man is characterized as an embodied consciousness. He states that the body is who he is, "being a body". Merleau-Ponty's views are important in the study of kinesiology for our understanding of what physical activity means to us. The two common views that exist seem to be an eastern view of holism (a unity of mind and body), where physical activity is for growth of the whole being, and the other is dualism (proposing a separation of the mind and body), which in the westernized society physical activity would be to manifest the power and idolization of the body. Merleau-Ponty's attempts to describe the body as a way of knowing ourselves through the world, through the "lived situation". Physical activity would then become a way of learning about yourself, your body and your mind.
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