person
1908–1961·also known as Merleau-Ponty, Merleau
French phenomenologist of embodied perception. Cameron was pointed to him by the Toronto sociologist John O'Neill as a thinker bearing on his cul-de-sac research — one of the figures Cameron sought out, like McLuhan and Hillman, in working out his own direction.
Across the dialogues
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The embodied-perception thread — O'Neill's tip that Merleau-Ponty bears on the cul-de-sac
It was John O'Neill, one of the few to take Cameron's work seriously, who sent him to Merleau-Ponty as related to the cul-de-sac.
"I began to visit other people like McLuhan — like James Hillman in Dallas, like John O'Neill in Toronto. John was very helpful, because he was one of the few people that said, this is interesting stuff. If you go to Merleau-Ponty, I think you'll find some related stuff."
A small point of usage — in French he is simply "Merleau," not the doubled "Merleau-Ponty" of English.
"The French just call him Merleau."
Connections
connects toCul-de-Sac
Sociologist John O'Neill pointed Cameron to Merleau-Ponty as related to the cul-de-sac research.