| Summary: | The present work aims to explore the treatment of the animal question as presented in two late works by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, specifically in La Nature Notes. Course du Collège de France (1995), and Le visible et l' invisible. Suivi de notes de travail (1964), hereinafter N). Given that in his late work we witness an ontological restitution of sensible life, we observe both a displacement of temporality from an existential plane towards a more fully ontological conception, and a rethinking of the animal question in terms of a human-animal intertwining relationship, tending to integrate and overcome the treatment carried out by the author from La Structure du Comportement published in (1942. Within the framework of this analysis, the idea of a chiasmic temporality inevitably reaches the conception of animality. We will try to elucidate this scope taking as a starting point the Merleau-Pontian reference to Inuit masks in N: the mask is, at the same time, a testimony of our humanity with its animal obverse and a sign of a vertical past. In this sense, the example will serve as a guide for us to understand that this reverse is, at the same time present and past, and the mask is a testimony of what we are and what we have never stopped being; testimony of the invisible in the visible and expression of a certain mythical dimension. El presente trabajo pretende explorar el tratamiento de la cuestión animal tal y como se presenta en dos obras tardías de Maurice Merleau-Ponty, específicamente en La Nature Notes. Course du Collège de France (1995), y Le visible et l' invisible. Suivi de notes de travail (1964). Dado que en su obra tardía asistimos a una restitución ontológica de la vida sensible, observamos tanto un desplazamiento de la temporalidad desde un plano existencial hacia una concepción más plenamente ontológica, como un replanteo de la cuestión animal en términos de una relación de entrelazamiento humano-animal, tendiente a integrar y superar el tratamiento llevado a cabo por el autor desde La Structure du ...
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