About me: I am a phenomenologist and existentialist philosopher, strongly influenced by phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, as well as Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology.After secondary schooling at the lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, I became a student at the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, where I befriended Jean-Paul Sartre.I first taught at Chartres, then became a tutor at the École Normale Supérieure, where I was awarded my doctorate on the basis of two important books: La structure du comportement (1942) and Phénoménologie de la Perception (1945).After teaching at the University of Lyon from 1945 to 1948, I lectured on child psychology and education at the Sorbonne from 1949 to 1952. I was awarded the Chair of Philosophy at the Collège de France from 1952 until my death in 1961, making me the youngest person to have been elected to a Chair.Besides my teaching, I was also political editor for Les Temps modernes from the founding of the journal in October 1945 until December 1952. Aged 53, I died suddenly of a stroke on the 3rd of May 1961, while preparing for a class on Descartes. I was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
