The Movement of Experience

HORENSTEIN, ARIELA BATTÁN

Chiasmi International

Mimesis

Año: 2017 vol. 18 p. 451 - 456

AbstractBeing in form. Dialectic and phenomenology in the last philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, written by the prominent scholar Mariana Larison, is a work devoted to reappraise and reconsider the importance of some central topics of the Merleau-Pontian thought. The main goal of the author consists of showing that Merleau-Ponty has never renounced the phenomenological way of assuming problems related to perception, behavior, or nature. However, she suggests that Merleau-Ponty transforms both the concept and the definition, of Phenomenology in order to exclude the dichotomy between consciousness and object. Larison shares the opinion that the last philosophy of Merleau-Ponty implies an ontological turn, but she is not in agreement with the idea that there is no link between the phenomenological period and the ontological one.In her work, Larison offers enough reasons to persuade readers that the ontological project was begun by Merleau-Ponty in the 1950s but first insinuated in the early 1930s. Notions such as ?form?, ?nature?, and ?dialectic?, doubtlessly allow for showing both continuity and change inMerleau-Pontian thought.