Abstract

We present a comparison, looking at differences and coincidences, between the philosophies of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Luc Nancy, focusing on their conceptions of the body, as a central way, in both of them, for an arrival to ontology of existence in the broadest sense. Finally from the perspective of the recent philosophical movement of the new realism we evaluate their proposals observing in which aspects Merleau-Ponty and Nancy are preparing this movement and in which aspects their philosophies need to be corrected or redefined.