Phénoménologie et apophase
Phenomenology and Apophasis

Summary/Abstract: The study tries to emphasize the implicit thematic relation between the reforming project of the contemporary phenomenology, as it appears illustrated by Merleau-Ponty in Le visible et l’invisible, and the philosophical and theological tradition of the apophatism. On this context, the author demonstrates that the analogy that Merleau-Ponty does between his new phenomenology and the “negative theology” does not aim so much at the occidental metamorphosis of the classical Neo-Platonism – especially in their aeropagitica version – but more at some kind of manifested “apophatism of the apophatism” that, for Merleau-Ponty, defines a new “esthesiology”- that of the limited void. This indirect cataphatism of the surpassing and the conservation of the affirmation and of the negation proper to any logical discourse – whose centre always remains in the created subject – on favor of the kind of “Logos”, expression of paradoxically synthesis between the created and the uncreated.

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