Merleau-Ponty como leitor de Schelling

It is demonstrated – based on The Visible and the Invisible and Nature: Course Notes from the Collège de France - Merleau-Ponty’s reading of Schelling’s Naturphilosophie. The French phenomenologist sees in Schelling’s project a confluence with his late 1950’s ontology of Brute or Wild Being. As we shall demonstrate, both argue for a unicity of Being in which the emergence of life and consciousness must be understood as phenomena that exceeds demarcations that separate nature and culture, positivity and negativity, immobility and expressiveness, etc. Thus, the paper indicates the harmony – pointed out by Merleau-Ponty himself - between the notions of Barbarian Principle and Flesh.