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CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS article

Front. Sociol.

Sec. Sociological Theory

Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2025.1441600

This article is part of the Research Topic The Evolution and Sustainability of Societal Systems View all 5 articles

The nature-culture relationship process. Toward of a constellar relationality

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  • Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

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    In this article I analyze a semantic genesis of the mutations experienced by the nature/culture binomial, which in some cases tends to be a continuum and in others will tend to the dualization of both domains. I begin with a brief analysis of the transcendence of the classical reflection on Nature from the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to stop my attention on the marked nature/culture duality in the no less classical formulations from specific works of Sigmund Freud and Claude Lévi-Strauss, even when this dualism is enriched by the conceptual variation in the work of each one. In the second part, I analyze the condition of possibility on which the above argumentation rests on the basis of a preparatory narrative that proceeds to objectify "nature" in the new modern cosmology that emerges in the seventeenth century with the stamp of Galileo and Descartes. In the third part, I analyze a whole set of sociological evidence that questions the plausibility of this separating duality between nature and culture and, in the fourth part, I analyze the return of the nature-culture continuum that emerges at the hands of a new cosmology in late modernity that receives the stamp of James Lovelock and Bruno Latour.

    Keywords: Culture-nature divide, Culture-nature relations, Anthropocene age, Constellar relationality, worlding

    Received: 31 May 2024; Accepted: 26 Feb 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Aguiluz-Ibargüen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Maya Aguiluz-Ibargüen, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

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