Edition: Oldenbourg Akademieverlag

ISBN: 978-3-05-004473-6

Veröffentlicht am: 11.12.2012

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Abstract: Despite the similarities in their intellectual careers and personal lives, the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Helmuth Plessner reflect a deep antagonism in their theoretical approach to human condition. In this article we will discuss the historical, political and epistemological reasons of this divergence which their anthropologies structurally reflect. However, we will endeavour in a second part to conceive a possible convergence of these two theoretical approaches to human of the basis of a Lévi-Straussian reading of Plessnerian anthropology (from its formalistic synthesis) as well as of an anthropological-philosophical interpretation of structuralism. Finally, we discuss the fact that, aware of the too one-sided dimension of their perspectives on man, both thinkers evoke in their late work the need to compensate for it by an approach which is exactly its opposite; advocating in this way – without suspecting it – a thought about man based on the articulation of their respective anthropologies