Merleau-Ponty
OriginFrance
Era1908
SchoolPhenomenology
About Merleau-Ponty
The Phenomenology of Perception is the foundational text of embodied cognition. Argued that consciousness is fundamentally bodily. Co-edited Les Temps Modernes with Sartre before their bitter split. Died suddenly at 53 with an unfinished manuscript on his desk. His work influenced cognitive science decades later.
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