Maurice Merleau-Ponty
1908–1961 · Person
Phenomenologist of the body — perception as something we live before we think it, flesh as the seat of meaning.
On these timelines: France, Arts and Thoughts, Master, People
More from France
- French Revolution (1789)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Founding of the Capetian dynasty (987)
- Treaty of Verdun (843)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Frankish kingdom of Clovis I (481)
Around 1908
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)