2016-03-02
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Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Albert Camus achieved celebrity well beyond France and well beyond philosophy.
They had a friend, Maurice Merlot Ponty, who was much less famous.
A leading exponent of phenomenology, the study of how things appear to us the way we are in the world and experience it.
Merlot Ponty argued that knowledge comes through the body.
Catherine Morris from Oxford University believes Merlot Ponty deserves wider recognition.
Catherine Morris, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thank you.
The topic we're going to focus on is Merleau Ponty and the body.
Just to begin, who was Merleau Ponty?
Merleau Ponty was a 20th century philosopher, a friend and a colleague of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
And he lectured partly in philosophy.
One of the things that's kind of interesting about him was that he engaged very much with the human sciences, anthropology, sociology and especially psychology.
He died terribly young, in his early fifties, but when he died, he held the chair in child psychology and pedagogy, which he took over from pioget.
You may have heard of Melo Ponte.
Was a phenomenologist, difficult word to say, but what does it mean?
Phenomenology is a very broad way of doing philosophy, kind of devised by Edmund Husserl and then taken up in various forms by people like Martin Heidegger and Jean Paul Sartre, and then Mel Ponty and various others since then.