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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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