“The Intertwining of Nature and Artifice: Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophies ofPhysis”. This paper attempts to delineate the main tenets of Merleau-Ponty’sunderstanding of nature, highlighting particularly the history of the notiondeveloped in Merleau-Ponty’s last courses (La nature]. The analysis covers preSocratic cosmologies, the Aristotelian notion of physis, and the Merleau-pontyaninterpretation of mechanicism and Modern teleology. In the first place, it refersto the critique of the categories with which the physis has been traditionallyunderstood. This critique is founded on the originary adscription of thesecategories to what is humanly instituted and constructed. Secondly, it showsthe limitations of this critique by pointing out that human technique may beinterpreted as an imitation and extension of nature. The evaluation of both sidesof this circular argument gives rise ...

Este trabajo intenta delinear los ejes centrales de la concepción merleaupontyanade la naturaleza, poniendo especial atención en los últimos cursos del filósofo acerca de la historia del concepto (La nature). El análisis hace escala en las cosmologías presocráticas, la concepción aristotélica de la physis y la interpretación merleaupontyana del mecanicismo y la teleología moderna. Primeramente nos referimos a la crítica de las categorías con que tradicionalmente se ha pensado a la physis, crítica fundada en su originaria adscripción a lo humanamente instituido y construido. En segundo lugar, relativizamos esta crítica a partir de la posible consideración de la técnica humana como imitación y extensión de la naturaleza. La evaluación de ambos movimientos de este argumento circular da lugar a una particular relación de Ineinander o entrelazamiento entre lo natural y l...

“The Intertwining of Nature and Artifice: Merleau-Ponty and the Philosophies ofPhysis”. This paper attempts to delineate the main tenets of Merleau-Ponty’sunderstanding of nature, highlighting particularly the history of the notiondeveloped in Merleau-Ponty’s last courses (La nature]. The analysis covers preSocratic cosmologies, the Aristotelian notion of physis, and the Merleau-pontyaninterpretation of mechanicism and Modern teleology. In the first place, it refersto the critique of the categories with which the physis has been traditionallyunderstood. This critique is founded on the originary adscription of thesecategories to what is humanly instituted and constructed. Secondly, it showsthe limitations of this critique by pointing out that human technique may beinterpreted as an imitation and extension of nature. The evaluation of both sidesof this circular argument gives rise ...