Phenomenology of the thing and phenomenology of the living being

The purpose of this study is to stress differences and relationships between two different types of phenomenological description: a phenomenology of the thing (founded on the notion of determination and on the ontological priority of extension) and a phenomenology of living being (founded on the notion of interlacement and on the ontological priority of the body and the flesh). The key point is the concept of essence: vague, morphological, inexact in Husserl; a style of Being in Merleau-Ponty. The given experience of the flesh is not pre-categorical, preliminary, antecedent (basic experience), but sub-categorical, something that is born from below, at a depth from which the natural families emerge through differentiation (vital experience).