Abstract This paper argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological ontology may serve as an important and exigent critique of the dominant understandings of nature and living being that circulate today. Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of nature involves a return to perceptual experience – a return that amounts to a restoration of the inexhaustible depth of the world, and offers a non-subjectivist account of embodied participation or relationality. This emphasis on participation can lead to an increased attentiveness to difference. The paper begins with a discussion of Merleau-Ponty’s critique of Cartesian ontology and the idea of depth, as outlined in his last published text ‘Eye and Mind’. The idea of depth is then related to Merleau-Ponty’s engagement with the work of Jakob von Uëxkull, as outlined in the Nature lectures in 1956–60. Finally, the paper links these discussions to Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy of the body and his phenomenological ontology.

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深度，自然，参与

摘要本文认为，莫里斯·梅洛-庞蒂的现象学本体论可以作为对当今流行的自然和生物的主流理解的重要而紧迫的批评。Merleau-Ponty的自然哲学涉及对感性体验的回归-回归意味着恢复了世界无尽的深度，并提供了一种非主观主义的关于具体参与或关系的描述。对参与的强调可能导致对差异的关注度增加。本文首先讨论了默洛-庞蒂对笛卡尔本体论的批判和深度思想，正如他上次发表的著作《眼睛与心灵》中所概述的那样。然后，深度思想与梅洛·庞蒂（Merleau-Ponty）参与雅各布·冯·埃克斯库尔（Jakob vonUëxkull）的作品有关，这在1956–60年的自然讲座中有所概述。最后，