Work : New Career 1945 (Professor at Lyons)
Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 1947 (Book released)
Work : New Job 1949 (Professor at Sorbonne)
Work : New Job 1952 (College de France)
Death:Death by Disease 3 May 1961 (Of a stroke, age 53) chart Placidus Equal_H.
French philosopher, the author of "Humanism and Terror," 1947 and "Phenomenology of Perception," 1962. As an Existentialist, he associated with Sartre in early post-war years as a fellow Communist until a break after the Korean War resulted in disillusionment. Prior to WW II he served as a teacher, a professor at Lyons in 1945, Sorbonne in 1949 and was appointed to the College de France in 1952. Died of a stroke on May 3, 1961, Paris, France. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
Born: Sat Mar 14 1908 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Birth Place: Rochefort, France
Died: 4 May 1961 (aged 53)
Death Place: Paris, France
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Full name: Maurice Jean-Jacques Merleau-Ponty
Occupation: Philosopher, phenomenologist, existentialist
Known for: His work on phenomenology, existentialism, and the philosophy of perception
Influenced by: Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre
Awards: Grand Prix National des Lettres (1947)
Education: École Normale Supérieure (Paris)
Notable works: "The Phenomenology of Perception" (1945), "The Structure of Behavior" (1942), "Humanism and Terror" (1947)
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