THE NOTION OF THE INSTITUTUON BY MERLEAU-PONTY

Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is known as unfinished. Even if it is quite unfinished, there is a unity in it. The aim of an effective reading of Merleau-Ponty goes through the enlightenment of the movement of this philosophy. Till now, the historiography seems to understand well the boundaries of the thought of the French philosopher, but there's still a gap in the reading, as if, between the 'Phénoménologie de la Perception' and 'Le Visible et l'Invisible', the philosophy of the author was at a break-even point. We want to keep attention on this gap in order to find the coherence back. To do this, we focused on the lesson Merleau-Ponty gave at the 'Collège de France' in 1954-1955. With the notion of institution, Merleau-Ponty helps us to think deeply the link between phenomenology and ontology that means the way from a reflexive philosophy to a philosophy of the flesh. The work we've done was to deal with the notion of institution in order to a better understanding of the movement inside the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty