<biography, history of philosophy> French philosopher (1908-1961). Applying the methods of Husserl's phenomenology to the relation of mind and body in La Phaenomaenalogie de la perception (The Phenomenology of Perception) (1945) and Le visible et l'invisible (The Visible and the Invisible) (1964), Merleau-Ponty rejected dualism and diagnosed a pervasive ambiguity in the character of human life. Attributing all consciousness to pre-reflective sensual awareness of the corporeal, Merleau-Ponty tried to overcome the traditional dichotomy between objective and subjective elements of human experience. Recommended Reading: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Structure of Behavior (Duquesne, 1983); The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting, ed. by Galen A. Johnson and Michael B. Smith (Northwestern, 1994); Gary Brent Madison, The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: A Search for the Limits of Consciousness (Ohio, 1981); Merleau-Ponty: Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life and the World, ed. by Dorothea Olkowski and James Morley (SUNY, 1999); and M. C. Dillon, Merleau-Ponty's Ontology (Northwestern, 1997).
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