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In which Merleau-Ponty has a chapter himself. plato.stanford.edu/entries/merleau-ponty

From Faces in the cloud Figure 4-1 Gary Larson cartoon 1983. We anthropomorphize animals by talking to them and feeling that they understand more than they do.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus

We don't know what we want and yet we are responsible for what are, that is a fact ~ Sartre

So what exactly is phenomenology? It is essentially a method rather than a set of theories, and -- at the risk of wildly oversimplifying -- its basic approach can be conveyed through a two-word command: ‘DESCRIBE PHENOMENA” The first part of this is straightforward : a phenomenologist’s job is to describe. This is the activity that Husserl plato.stanford.edu/entries/husserl kept reminding his students to do. It meant stripping away distractions, habits, cliches attention to what he called the ‘thing themse4lves.’ We must fix our beady gaze on them and capture them exactly as they appear, rather than as we think they are supposed to be. - 40

Existentialism Is a Humanism www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm

. . . Here is my attempt at a definition of what existentialist do. I put it here for reference. ~Sarah Backwell (Author - At the Existentialist Café)