The intellectual history of the 20th century has been written along ascenario which sees in Merleau-Ponty's death in 1961 the partition line between an existential and phenomenological generation and the immediately subsequent event of structuralism. The publication of Merleau-Pontys lecture notes on Edmund Husserl's Origin of geometry has shown how shaky the grounds of such a simplifying reading are. Indeed, while Derrida's translation of and introduction to Husserl's text from 1962 became a founding text for the structuralist generation, introducing a reflection about the historicity and the materiality of ideality, it was only in 1998, with the publication of Merleau-Ponty's notes from the Collège de France lecture in ...