Derrida despre bricolajul lui Levi Strauss: o idee teologică?

Mythical thought, according to Lévi-Strauss, attempts to re-use available materials in order to · solve new problems. Jacques Derrida extends this notion to any discourse: ‘if one calls bricolage the · necessity of borrowing one's concept from the text of a heritage which is more or less coherent or

Derrida critiques structural anthropology, particularly Lévi-Strauss’s view of culture and nature, asserting that this framework is rooted in a misconception derived from romanticism. He argues against the Enlightenment's objective knowledge and rational thought, instead advocating for an experiential understanding of mythological thought through 'bricolage.'

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This is what Lévi-Strauss says · in The Raw and the Cooked, from which I would now like to quote a long and remarkable ... are the silent performers. If it be asked where the real focus of the work is to be found, it must be · replied that its determination is impossible. Music and mythology bring man face to face with · virtual objects whose shadow alone is actual.... Myths have no authors” (25). Thus it is at this point that ethnographic bricolage deliberately assumes its mythopoetic

Of all the presentations at the 1966 symposium ‘The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man’, none have been so thoroughly mythologized as Jacques Derrida’s reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss in ‘Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences’. With this paper, Derrida was said to have unseated Lévi-Strauss from his privileged position in ethnology, prefiguring a more thorough critique that would appear later in Of Grammatology.

Derrida’s preference for bricolage accords with his rejection of absolute epistemological breaks and his suspicion of purportedly ‘scientific’ languages. Though Derrida still remains wary of the concept of bricolage, which because of its opposition to engineering is ‘theological’ (49n.), through his reading of Lévi-Strauss, it has become a central concept in literary theory.

The bricoleur's foil is the engineer, ... is really bricolage. Derrida praises Lévi-Strauss for his insights into the complexities, limitations, and circularities of examining 'a culture' from the outside in order to classify its mythological system....

Derrida in Structure Sign and Play ... arguing that it is not possible for anyone to be the “absolute origin of his own discourse” or to “construct the totality of his language, syntax and lexicon.” Consequently- he remarks ...

Each myth is unique and can add more to the study of mythology, whereas all the sentences in a language use the same grammar, so only a sample of sentences is needed for the study of grammar. However, this is empirical evidence, which Derrida disregards. He uses Levi-Strauss’s example of the study of grammar to prove that “totalization” is both useless and impossible.