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Mer⋅leau-Pon⋅ty

[mer-loh pawn-tee]
–noun
Maurice, 1908–61, French phenomenological philosopher.
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Mer·leau-Pon·ty   (měr-lō'pôɴ-tē')   
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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