ABSTRACT
The opposition of nature and culture implies ananthropology in which man would be a ‘de-natured’ ordistorted being, who has been led astray from his original condition. The loss of the ‘state of nature’ is regarded as having opened to man the ways to a greatness of another order-the one that is conquered through history, within the realm of culture. It is only in the Age of Enlightenment, around the systems of Rousseau and Kant, that this nature/culture opposition was set up in a form that is recognizable to us. From then on, we get the complete picture, in which all of the following elements are brought together:
The idea of a primordial condition promoted as sane and good though crude, primitive, and characterized by cyclic repetition of the same, or, at least, by its stationary aspect.
