Toward a Multi-Layered Chiasme-Focused Topology: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty's Later Writings  

作　　者：MA Lin 

机构地区：[1]School of Philosophy,Renmin University of China,Beijing 100872,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Philosophy in China》2020年第2期242-269,共28页中国哲学前沿（英文版）

摘　　要：This paper traces the genealogy of reversibility,chiasma,and chiasme in Merleau-Ponty's writings and offers a new characterisation of his later ontology in terms of a multi-layered chiasme-focused topology informed by subtle differences and interconnections among these notions.We need to grasp the significance of reversibility not only in terms of constant recoil and impossible overlap but also of its situatedness in the crisscrossing between Dasein and things,and between the inside/invisible and the outside/visible."Chiasma" was initially introduced as a reference to the intersection of perspectives.Merleau-Ponty deploys it to articulate macroscopic insights concerning the nature of philosophy and the interweaving connections between self,other,and the world.In comparison,"reversibility" is primarily used to describe the microscopic bond between touching-touched and perceiving-perceived.I argue that,as Merleau-Ponty's ultimate choice of wording,"chiasme" incorporated the significance of both "reversibility" and "chiasma." A chiasme-focused topology that retains the significance of all three of the terms would serve to better convey the import of Merleau-Ponty's later ontology,which aims to dissolve and to re-configure our conceptions about being,body,self,and the other from within and from below.

关 键 词：MERLEAU-PONTY CHIASMA chiasme REVERSIBILITY intertwining(entrelacs) ontology 

分 类 号：TP3[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]