Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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This is in our time from BBC Radio Four, and this is one of more than a thousand episodes you can find on BBC Sounds and on our website. If you scroll down the page for this edition, you can find a reading list to go with it. I hope you enjoyed the programme. Hello, the French philosopher Maurice Merleau Ponty nineteen oh eight to nineteen sixty one was part of the movement known as Phenomenology. While it is less well known than his contemporary Jean Paul Sartre and Simon de Beauvoir, his popularity has increased among philosophers in recent years.

Meloponti rejected René Descartes' division between body and mind. Arguing. The way you perceive the world around us is cannot be separated from our experience of inhabiting a physical. Mano Pontier was interested in the down to earth questions and what it actually is like to live in the world.

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