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First published in 1945, Maurice Merleau-Ponty's monumental Phenomenologie de la perception signalled the arrival of a major new philosophical and intellectual voice in post-war Europe. Breaking with the prevailing picture of existentialism and phenomenology at the time, it has become one of the landmark works of twentieth-century thought. This new…
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Merleau-Ponty is one of the 20th century’s most important, and frequently overlooked, thinkers.
His work The Phenomenology of Perception has had the single greatest impact on my own thinking about how we perceive both “the world” of our senses and body, and the incarnate subject—the “I”—who is in the world. It is one of the great philosophical masterpieces of the past century.
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