TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scarso,Davide
TI  - Between Theory of the Sensible and Aesthetic Logos: Lévi-Strauss and Merleau-Ponty
PY  - 2009///.
							
N1  - 83
N2  - In this article we want to show that one can find some tangible resonances and singular exchanges between the positions of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Claude Lévi-Strauss. Without going so far as to annul the basic differences, these exchanges and resonances perhaps make it possible to understand to what extent the common reference to a “savage mind” (esprit sauvage) could mean, according to Lévi-Strauss’s phrase: at the same time the same and a wholly other thing. We take into consideration more particularly Merleau-Ponty’s reflections on animality and on the concept of species in the course notes on Nature, and Lévi-Strauss’s pages devoted to the same themes in Totemism today and The Savage Mind. For both of them, the animal species plays a central role in the analysis of the relationship between humans and the natural world, a role that numerous mythical traditions forcefully illustrate. Although they had solutions and aspirations that oppose each other in numerous respects, Merleau-Ponty and Lévi-Strauss appear, in any event, committed to probing in-depth a common territory: that of the relation between sensible experience and thought, between nature and culture, and between humanity and animality
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-figures-de-la-psy-2009-1-page-57?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -