ABSTRACT
Blancher's reading of philosophical discourse I is at once a concern with what philosophical discourse ought to be and an account of how he understands Merleau-Ponry's project. Blanchet's assessment in 1971 was published ten years after Merleau-Ponry's death. Blanchot assigns to Merleau-Ponty a special status. He is described as "a certain contemporary philosopher"-just as Dante throughout the Divine Comedy speaks of Aristotle as "the Philosopher." For Blanchot, what is significant in Merleau-Ponty is exemplary of philosophy in general.
