RAFAEL ZAMBONELLI NOGUEIRA

This research aims to investigate the articulation between nature and history in Merleau-Ponty, building upon our master's thesis on the issue of history in the same author. While the necessity for such articulation is already somewhat present in the philosopher's early texts, it will only take a central place in his thinking in the 1950s, leading to a reformulation of these terms and their relationships within an ontology that definitively breaks away from the ontology of the object. According to our hypothesis, in this theoretical movement, Merleau-Ponty ends up integrating into the morphological tradition initiated by Goethe while simultaneously contributing to its renewal by developing an ontology of forms that combines the antagonistic perspectives of genesis and structure, ultimately marking a new way of thinking about the relationships between phenomenology and structuralism.