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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
48
Citations
45524
World Ranking
3019
National Ranking
31

Maurice Merleau-Ponty publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maurice Merleau-Ponty sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 174 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maurice Merleau-Ponty sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 48 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was affiliated with the Collège de France in France. Their research intersected multiple domains, primarily focusing on philosophy, psychology, and phenomenology.

The scientist's recent research output includes the following papers:

  • Problèmes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 2020, Chiasmi International
  • Annexe: Lettre à Georg Lukács, 24 mai 1946, Paris, 2021, Actuel Marx
  • Sense and Nonsense. Cézanne's Doubt, 2020, Sledva Journal for University Culture
  • Problems of Yesterday and Today, 2020, Chiasmi International
  • CARTA DE CANDIDATURA AO COLLÈGE DE FRANCE UM INÉDITO DE MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY, 2022, Phenomenology Humanities and Sciences

Frequent coauthors during their career included:

  • Bryan Smyth
  • Claudinei Aparecido de Freitas da Silva
  • Marcos José Müller
  • Kenneth Maly
  • Edmund Husserl

Merleau-Ponty also published books with Northwestern University Press, including:

  • The Possibility of Philosophy, 2022
  • The Sensible World and the World of Expression, 2020

Their work appeared predominantly in the following venues:

  • Chiasmi International
  • Actuel Marx
  • Sledva Journal for University Culture
  • Phenomenology Humanities and Sciences

The scientist's academic focus covered these subfields of study:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Philosophy

Key themes within their research included:

  • Psychology and Mental Health
  • Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis

Maurice Merleau-Ponty's contributions span interdisciplinary investigations that bridged psychological and philosophical perspectives. Their work engaged with phenomenological inquiry and the theoretical foundations of human experience as reflected in both clinical contexts and broader existential questions.

Best Publications

  • Phenomenology of Perception

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Phenomenology of Perception

    Mary Warnock;M. Merleau-Ponty;Colin Smith

  • The visible and the invisible

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Phénoménologie de la perception

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • The primacy of perception

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty;Rudolf Boehm

  • Le visible et l'invisible : suivi de notes de travail

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • The structure of behavior

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Fenomenologia da percepção

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics

    Charles Taylor;Maurice Merleau-Ponty;James M. Edie;Richard C. McCleary

  • La structure du comportement

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Fenomenología de la percepción

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Sense and non-sense

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty;Hubert L. Dreyfus;Patricia Allen Dreyfus

  • The World of Perception

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • The Prose of the World

    James P. Mall;Maurice Merleau-Ponty;Claude Lefort;John O'Neill

  • The Structure of Behaviour

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty;Alden L. Fisher

  • Sens et non-sens

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • L'oeil et l'esprit

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • Adventures of the dialectic

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  • The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting

    Maurice Merleau-Ponty;Galen A. Johnson;Michael B. Smith

  • Art in Theory 1900-1990 : An Anthology of Changing Ideas

    Téodor De Wyzewa;Paul Signac;Paul Gauguin;Sigmund Freud

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre Université Paris Cité
Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl Loyola University Chicago
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud University of Vienna
Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida École Normale Supérieure
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger Philipp University of Marburg
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Hubert L. Dreyfus University of California, Berkeley
Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan Université Paris Cité
Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett University of Reading

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