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