Chiasmus?

Abstract

With an array of contemporary philosophers and their works, Dr. Mario Teodoro Ramírez Cobián looks at the change from the nomological to the systemic paradigm, without declaring it. To speak of systems is to speak of relations, to speak of chiasmus is to speak of the intersection between the natural and the cultural; between the phenomenic and the human products; between the subject and the object; between faculties and emotions... In love with aesthetics and the arts—Merleau-Ponty. To arrive at these findings, this French philosopher, analyzed under Mario Teodoro’s magnifying glass, placed himself next to the corporality that takes its intense forms in the perceptions and the judgment of taste. Chiasmus (chiasmon, from the Greek): intermediate. In rhetoric, it is the intersection of two parallel structures where the second reverses the order of the first. Chiasmus is also the link between the reader and the text or hermeneutics. As a historicist and phenomenologist, he reaches the holon, the gestalt, the life, the creation and self-creation that reveals the determinism of chance. Merleau-Ponty takes the side of the corporeality that he constructs and destroys with the semiotic chiasm, intertwines meanings, and to the art whose center is everywhere and its circumference in none. He considers the body as the power that sees, touches, hears; of the conscious and unconscious. Read-ing Mario Teodoro's writings on Merleau- Ponty teaches us the holon, historical vitalism, the conscious and the unconscious.