ABSTRACT
Merleau-Ponty in many ways lived in the shadow of Jean-Paul Sartre, who was his friend and colleague. Merleau-Ponty based much of his thinking on Husserl’s later work, which he studied in the Husserl archives in Louvain. The objective of philosophy according to this interpretation is not to find truth, and certainly not absolute truth, but rather to enter into a kind of dialogue with the world that makes sense.
