%0 Journal Article %T El cuerpo: un modo de existencia ambigu Aproximaci¨®n a la filosof¨ªa del cuerpo en la fenomenolog¨ªa de Merleau-Ponty %A Espinal P¨¦rez %A Cruz Elena %J Co-herencia %D 2011 %I Universidad EAFIT %X this work is an approximation to the philosophy of body starting from maurice merleau-ponty's phenomenology of perception. based on the concept of phenomenal body, we find a conception of body depicted as an ambiguous sort of being. the following sections are developed: the bodily experience: perception and object, the phenomenal body and the experience of space, temporality: retention and propensity, being-in-the-world and body as expressive space. so, from the experience of the own's body and against the idea of a subject who owns himself through self-understanding, it is shown how the boundaries between subject and object, activity and passivity, interiority and exteriority or spirit and nature vanish in the ambiguity of the body and the existence. %K meleau-ponty %K phenomenal body %K perception %K subject of perception %K temporality %K being-in-the-world %K phenomenology %K intentionality %K subjectivity. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1794-58872011000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en