Merleau-Ponty placed marginalized bodily and developmental subjects at philosophy’s center

Evidence

By prioritising perception, the body, social life and childhood development, Merleau-Ponty gathered up philosophy’s far-flung outsider subjects and brought them in to occupy the centre of his thought. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 757

Categorization

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Broader Connections