ABSTRACT
The concept of centered structure is in fact the concept of a play based on a fundamental ground, a play constituted on the basis of a fundamental immobility and a reassuring certitude, which itself is beyond the reach of play. There are thus two interpretations of interpretation, of structure, of sign, of play. The one seeks to decipher, dreams of deciphering a truth or an origin which escapes play and the order of the sign, and which lives the necessity of interpretation as an exile. The second interpretation of interpretation, to which Nietzsche pointed the way, does not seek in ethnography, as Claude Levi-Strauss does, the “inspiration of a new humanism”. The quality and fecundity of a discourse are perhaps measured by the critical rigor with which this relation to the history of metaphysics and to inherited concepts is thought. Levi-Strauss describes bricolage not only as an intellectual activity but also as a mythopoetical activity.
