The objective of this paper is to address the phenomenon of alterity in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, a problem that remained unsolved in Husserl’s phenomenology. One of the strategies implemented by Merleau-Ponty in order to establish “normality” in the interaction among human beings is to re-contextualize the concepts of body and perception. Strictly speaking, it could then be said that body and world intersect and remain connected through perception. Articulo recibido: 12 de abril de 2010; aceptado: 1 de mayo de 2010.. * rushlogo@yahoo.com.mx ** gaber2016@hotmail.com