Strukturální antropologie a „konec člověka“

• Authors: Svec Ondrej

Title variants

EN

STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE 'DEATH OF MAN'

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

According to the traditional interpretation, Levi-Strauss' structural anthropology deposes the concept of man and the notion of human nature from its central place in human and social sciences. While it is necessary to acknowledge Levi-Strauss' distance vis-a-vis all philosophy based on intentionality, experience and consciousness of subject, the author argues that the most interesting purpose of the structural anthropology lies elsewhere. Not only Levi-Strauss never declared himself being part of anti-humanism movement, but most of all, his famous polemics with Sartre at the end of 'La Pensee sauvage' should be interpreted as part of his fight against ethnocentrism. The project of 'dissolving the man' can be thus read as deconstructing the idea that western man makes of himself in the light of ethnological findings about universal structures orchestrating all human societies. He further shows that the notion of subject survived its very death announced by the most radical structuralist thinkers and that structural method could be effectively employed in order to study different techniques and modes of subjectivation, revealing that 'becoming subject' is a process structured by our language, symbolic universe and ethical teleology

Keywords

EN

ETHNOCENTRISM; FOUCAULT MICHEL; HUMAN NATURE; LEVI-STRAUSS CLAUDE; STRUCTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SUBJECT; SUBJECTIVATION

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teorie vědy (Theory of Science)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-48
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Svec Ondrej

• Ondrej Svec, Filozoficka fakulta UHK, Rokitanskeho 62, 500 03 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4845/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA08331