H. P. Grice and J. L. Austin read Merleau-Ponty -- in French

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice (1908–61) French phenomenological philosopher, born in Rochefort-sur-Mer. Merleau-Ponty rejected the Cartesian dualism of body and soul. The role of the body in the human subject’s experiential relationship with the world is a central theme of his philosophy. He rejected both realist and subjectivist accounts of consciousness. He held that the objects of experience are neither wholly given to us in senseperception nor wholly constructed by us, but are by nature ambiguous. He stressed the primacy of perception and claimed that all perspectives are local. His most important book is The Phenomenology of Perception (1945). Other works include The Structure of Behaviour (1942), Sense and Nonsense (1948), and The Visible and the Invisible (1964).