The body is our general medium for having a world.
Le corps est notre moyen général d'avoir un monde.
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty
French phenomenologist (1908-1961). Friend and rival of Sartre, he turned Husserlian phenomenology toward a philosophy of the body. His Phenomenology of Perception (1945) argued we inhabit the world through the body.
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