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Five Card Story: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), French philosopher and public intellectual, was the leading academic advocate of existentialism and phenomenology in post-war France.
1st Photo - Within the confront of developing political contradictions with Sartre set in movement by the Korean War, Merleau-Ponty surrendered his part as political editor of Les Temps Modernes in December of 1952 and pulled back from the publication board inside and out in 1953.
2nd Photo - In 1913 Ponty's father died, a knight of the Legion of Honor and coloniql artillery captain. Later on, he would describe his childhood as incomparably happy, and he stick with his mother until she died in 1953.
3rd photo - After a year of necessary military service, Merleau-Ponty tutored at the secondary school in Beauvais from 1931 to 1933, pursued a year of analysis on perception funded by a subvention from the Caisse nationale First States sciences (the precursor of today’s Centre national de la exquisite scientifique) in 1933 to 1934, and tutored at the secondary school in Chartres in 1934 to 1935. From 1935 to 1940, he was an educator at the École Normale Supérieure, where in his main mission was to organize students for the agrégation.
4th photo - In Parisian lycees Janson-de-Sailly and Louis-le-Grand, Ponty pursued his secondary studies. In 1923 to 1924, Ponty completed his first course in Philosophy at Janson-de-Sailly with his friend Gustave Rodrigues. He won the school’s "Award for Outstanding Achievement" in philosophy that year and would afterward follow his commitment to the work of philosophy to this to begin with his first course. In 1924 to 1925 he received "First Prize in Philosophy" at Louis-le-Grand.
5th photo - In 1948 to 1949 Marleau-Ponty declined the invitation to join the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago as a Visiting Professor.
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