Merleau-Ponty Maurice
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Mer·leau-Pon·ty
(mĕr-lō′pôN-tē′), Maurice 1908-1961. French phenomenologist and social critic. Author of such works as Adventures of the Dialectic (1955), he departed from classical phenomenology by emphasizing the relation between consciousness and the world.
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