Thus, the themes of one's own body as language and as intentionality cannot get around the classical dangers, and thought cannot first be language unless it is acknowledged that thought is first and irreducibly a relation to the other (which it seems to us did not escape Merleau Ponty); but a relation to an irreducible other who summons me without possibility of return from without, for in this order is presented the infinity which no thought can enclose and which forbids all monologue even if it had the corporal intentionality' of Merleau Ponty.