Merleau-Pont’s location in the phenomenological movement, established by Edmund Husserl, can be determined only by considering the important role of “dialectic” in his thought. Using the dialectical method, he opens up a new path toward a “dialectical phenomenology” to release it from the antinomies into which it was entrapped. By adopting a dialectical strategy, Merleau-Ponty no longer defines the scope of phenomenology as “pure consciousness.” Encroachment of the “consciousness” and the “world” on each other does not allow defining the scope of phenomenological investigation in terms of “substantiality of a domain.” Therefore, contrary to Husserl and Heidegger who delineated the borders of phenomenological investigation against sciences, Merleau-Ponty, choosing a Hegelian approach, tries to overcome the ontic/ontological duality
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