Maurice Merleau-Ponty Biography

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NAME: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
OCCUPATION: Educator, Philosopher, Political Scientist, Academic Author, Editor, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: March 14, 1908
DEATH DATE: May 03, 1961
EDUCATION: École Normale Supérieure
PLACE OF BIRTH: Rochefort, France
PLACE OF DEATH: Paris, France

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty was a French philosopher and man of letters, the leading exponent of phenomenology in France.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty was born on March 14, 1908 in Rochefort, France. Merleau-Ponty was an officer during WWII, and was an unofficial co-editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes with Jean-Paul Sartre. His most important works of philosophy include The Structure of Behavior and Phenomenology of Perception. He wrote a defense of Soviet communism, but was disillusioned after the Korean War. He died on May 3, 1961, in Paris, France.