Question

A later author used this thinker’s ideas to argue that “while feminine bodily existence is a transcendence and openness to the world, it is an ambiguous transcendence.” This author’s claim that “there is no world without an Existence that bears its structure” anticipated (-5[1])a 1951 debate with A. J. Ayer over whether the sun existed before human beings. This thinker died while writing a work that distinguishes between the “flesh of the body” and “flesh (10[1])of the world.” (10[2])A book by this author, which inspired Iris Marion Young’s “Throwing (10[1])Like a Girl,” (-5[1])closes with Antoine (10[1])de Saint-Exupéry’s (“ann-TWAHN duh SAN-teg-zoo-pay-REE”) quote that “Man is but a network of relationships.” This author of The Visible and the Invisible (10[4])wrote (10[1])a (10[1])Husserl-inspired work that argues for the “primacy” of sensory experience. (10[1])For 10 points, name this French author of The Phenomenology (-5[1])of (-5[1])Perception. ■END■ (10[6]0[6])

ANSWER: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Soren HeydariNorth Carolina BUC Berkeley A42-5
Tim MorrisonStanfordJohns Hopkins7410
John MarvinChicago AColumbia A7710
Andrew WangIllinois ANYU7710
Aum MundheRutgersRIT8810
Simon ZimmermanOhio StateVirginia Tech91-5
Joel MilesMinnesotaWinona State9410
Mitch McCullarPenn StateVirginia11310
Leo LawFloridaWUSTL A11310
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateNorthwestern11310
Guy IndoranteIowa StateIllinois B11310
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltWaterloo A11410
Jaik HavlickArizona StateToronto A11510
Matthew WangBritish ColumbiaWUSTL B12510
Kevin WangGeorgia TechTexas135-5
Rayton LinWaterloo BColumbia B136-5
Nitin RaoHarvardOttawa1380
Orion KellerVirginia TechOhio State13810
Wenying WuToronto BMichigan13810
Swapnil GargUC Berkeley ANorth Carolina B13810
Adrian WongOttawaHarvard1380
Jakob MyersIndianaMIT13810
Ezra SantosChicago BToronto C13810
Karan GurazadaTexasGeorgia Tech1380
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BUCF13810
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEMaryland1380
Derek ChenColumbia BWaterloo B1380
Gus VanskikeMarylandLSE1380