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Claude Lefort on Meeting Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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The questions with which Merleau-Ponty was dealing made me feel that they had existed within me before I discovered them. And he himself had a strange way of questioning: he seemed to make up his thoughts as he spoke, rather than merely acquainting us with what he already knew. It was an unusual and disturbing spectacle.

— From “How did you become a philosopher?” by Claude Lefort, translated by Lorna Scott Fox in Philosophy in France Today (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983) 98

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Written by kirkistan

February 15, 2013 at 5:00 am

Posted in Collaborate, Communication is about relationship, curiosities, philosophy, Teaching writing

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