In the context of my considerations, it is about an ontology of the sensual or an ontology of the body, of flesh, within which Merleau-Ponty addresses language and thereby claims an autonomy for it. It is therefore a matter of establishing a sensual being of language – a body, a flesh of language – in which an irreducible difference between corporeality and language prevails and no identification is possible. This work consists of three parts: 1. The question of meaning and the problem of language, 2. An ontology of language as an ontology of the body and flesh, and 3. The experience of the Other and language. The aim of the first part is to show how the core of a phenomenology of language determines Merleau-Ponty's peculiar conception of philosophy and science. My intention in the second part is to...