CONTRIBUTI / Gianluca De Fazio
The Chiasmus of Nature and the Transcendental: “an Originary Duplicity”. Philosophical Ecology in Schelling’s System and M. Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology
The aim of this paper is to analyze the ecological entailments of the relationship between the Philosophy of Schelling and the Ontology of Merleau-Ponty. The paper starts from Merleau-Ponty’s lectures at the Collège de France where Merleau-Ponty points out the union of subject and the object in the Descartes’ Metaphysical Meditations: this is what Merleau-Ponty calls Chiasm. Then the paper shows the agreement of the concept of Chiasm to Schelling’s Naturphilosophie and the concept of Absolute as Becoming Bond. In the end, the paper argues that Schelling’s notion of Absolute and Merleau-Ponty’s concept of Chiasm lead to the problem of Statute of Philosophy conceived as a Transcendental Art.
