Ontology in Merleau-Ponty

• Grant number: 11/08141-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: July 01, 2011
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Alberto Ribeiro de Moura
• Grantee: Alex de Campos Moura
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Deepening and developing a perspective worked before, this project intends to show the presence of a constant ontologic line through all the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty. Concentrating our research in three different moments, we intend not only to indicate the existence of an ontology in moments in which it is often desconsidered, but also to show that one of its main axis is the affirmation of a primary unit between Being and Nothingness, proposal of a kind of reversibility that puts in suspense the classical dualismes. Doing this, we intend to put in evidence the original position taken by Merleau-Ponty in the philosophical debate of his epoch, defending a different interpretation from the one more common among his researchers. (AU)