Maurice Merleau-Ponty belongs to the philosophical record as a figure whose arguments outlasted the disputes that prompted them.
The record lists Maurice Merleau-Ponty as French phenomenological philosopher.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born at Rochefort in 1908. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at École Normale Supérieure and Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Collège de France, University of Paris and University of Lyon.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
Philosophy advances by objection: an argument matters if serious people spend years attacking it.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty died in 1961, aged 53. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at Collège de France, University of Paris and University of Lyon
- Fields: philosophy
