Naître du monde et naître au monde. Merleau-Ponty / Patočka

Abstract

Being born from the world and being born to the world: Merleau-Ponty / Patočka

The phenomenon of birth is here to be presented as a crucial one, discreet though, into Merleau-Ponty and Patočka’s philosophy. So it deserves a confrontation of their respective thoughts. Both of them have radicalised Husserl’s phenomenology into a philosophy of birth. This phenomenological achievement includes an ontology of birth, which feeds an anthropology in a brand new way, presented in the following pages.

Keywords: Merleau-Ponty, Patočka, phenomenology, ontology, birth