El retorno a la “naturaleza” en Maurice Merleau- Ponty y en Hans-Georg Gadamer: aportes para pensar “el retorno a la naturaleza latinoamericana”

Abstract

This article is about the fruitful dialogue between the philosophy of the body of the french philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the hermeneutics of the german philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, respecting Nature according to both authors. The two traditions remark the way in which each author understands the problem of an original experience, a meeting or approximation with the environment. For his side, Merleau-Ponty speaks to us about Nature from the point of view of a theory that favors the field of body and present sensitivity, whereas Gadamer speaks to us about Nature from the point of view of a theory of interpretation that emphasize the linguistic, historical and traditional character. Our interest in reading both authors from an ecological horizon resides in seeing, in their studies, philosophical antecedents to think about the access, always complex, to the topic “Nature” in Latin America. Certainly, this is an aspect concerning which multifarious Latin-American authors have declared their conceptions, conceptions that we pretend to remark in our paper.