RAFAEL ZAMBONELLI NOGUEIRA

The present research aims to investigate the articulation between nature and history in Merleau-Ponty, in continuity with our master's thesis on the problem of history in the same author. Although the need for such articulation was already somehow present in the philosopher's first texts, it was only in the 1950s that it assumed a central place in his thinking, giving rise to a reformulation of these terms and their relationships within an ontology. that definitively breaks with the ontology of the object. According to our hypothesis, in this theoretical movement, Merleau-Ponty ends up inserting himself into the morphological tradition inaugurated by Goethe at the same time that he contributes 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.