L’autore tesse un dialogo tra le svariate istanze emerse dagli altri saggi qui raccolti, rimettendo via via in prospettiva quei problemi all’interno di una originale rilettura della proposta “etica” variamente elaborata dalle voci più avanzate dell’ermeneutica contemporanea: fare filosofia dopo Nietzsche significa esibire il limite e la volontà di verità a partire da cui parla la filosofia stessa; ma esibire quel limite non è più un gesto “veritativo” quanto un atto “politico”: non è un nuovo sapere né un ironico non (...) sapere, ma un fare; non un’esercitazione alla morte ma una messa in opera della vita. (shrink)

Every structure, therefore also every institution, is inhabited by an “empty box”, a mobile space that can never be filled, which sets the elements in motion. This idea – which finds one of its many formulations, perhaps the most famous, in Deleuze’s Structuralism – is the outcome of a long and fruitful path, from Durkheim, through Mauss, to the anthropology of Lévi-Strauss. To understand its genesis and follow its evolutionary path, it is necessary to focus attention on Marcel Mauss’s work (...) and on his way of thinking about institutions. (shrink)

Music, simultaneity and the relationship between the whole and the parts are three themes closely intertwined in Lévi-Strauss's work. To illustrate these themes, as gradually elaborated by Lévi-Strauss, we will follow a path in several stages along his intellectual journey: simultaneity, chess and music are the three figures that will guide us.