Merleau-Ponty: The Relationship Between Interrogative Ontology And Biological Sciences

Abstract

In this paper we will ask ourselves about the meaning of the Merleau-Pontyan cogitation on the biological sciences developed in the courses taught at the Collège de France in the years 1956-1957; 1957-1958; 1959-1960 and its connection with the project of a new ontology and the questioning about the current status philosophy, which accompany the reflections of the French philosopher collected in the course proposed at Collège de France entitled “Possibilité de la philosophie” (1958-1959) and in Parcours deux 1951- 1961. We will therefore try to understand why and how these investigations open up the ontology project of wild Being discerned in The visible and the invisible (1964).