%0 Journal Article %T Sobre el fracaso de la filosof¨ªa: absurdo, m¨ªstica y locura en Maurice Merleau-Ponty %A Belvedere %A Carlos %J Enfoques %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %X in this paper, i deal with merleau-ponty's conception of philosophy all along his writings. i start exposing his phenomenological-existential conception of philosophy because it introduces a variety of considerations concerning a philosophical approach to ambiguity, silence, mystic experience, and creation as a task for ontology. then i will take into consideration the analogy between madness and philosophical though, the flaws of philosophy and its self destruction. finally, i will assess the effort of philosophical thinking following merleau-ponnty's latest writings. %K philosophy %K ontology %K ambiguity %K silence %K creation. %U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1669-27212008000100003&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en