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Is Our Consciousness Linguistic?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Edmond Radar*
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Brussels
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“Given the fact that the consciousness of man is a linguistic consciousness, all models superimposed on consciousness, including art, can be understood as secondary modeling systems, “ wrote Yuri Lotman in Introduction à la structure du texte artistique.

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Research Article
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Copyright © 1983 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1 Yuri Lotman, La structure du texte artistique, (Struktura khudozestvenogo teksta), translated from the Russian by A. Fournier, B. Kreise, E. Malleret, J. Yong, under the direction of Henri Meschonnic, Paris, Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines, NRF, 1973.

2 Paul Valéry—who answered in this manner, by other channels and without uncertainty, the needs of the transcendental ego of Edmond Husserl, latest theory, still incomplete, of conscious activity. Les Cahiers, Paris, "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade," NRF, 1973, vol. 2, p. 203.

3 Paul Valéry, Introduction à la méthode de Léonard de Vinci, in Oeuvres complètes, Paris, "La Pléïade;" NRF, 1957, 2 volumes, vol. 1, p. 1153.

4 Jean Starobinski, Les mots sous les mots (Les anagrammes de Ferdinand de Saussure), Paris, "Le Chemin," NRF, 1971.

5 André Leroi-Gourhan, Le geste et la parole, Paris, Albin Michel, 1965, 2 volumes.

6 E. Herrigel, Le zen dans l'art chevaleresque du tir à l'arc, "Boud dhisme et Jaïnisme," Lyon, Paul Derain, 1961.

7 Jean de la Croix, Oeuvres complètes, "Bibliothèque européenne," Paris, DDB, 1959.

8 Martin Heidegger, Qu'appelle-t-on penser?, translated by Aloys Becker and Gerard Granel, "Epiméthée," Paris, P.U.F., 1959.

9 Henri Van Lier, L'Animal signé, Brussels, De Visscher, 1980. See, in particular, the discussion of "the effects of the field of perception," pp. 42-45 and 71-73.

10 Henri Van Lier, Les Arts de l'espace, Paris, Casterman, 1959 and Lectures historiennes: Villon, Ronsard, Corneille, Pascal, Molière, "Le langage et l'homme," Brussels, 1974-78.

11 P. Fleury, "La vision," in Encyclopaedia Universalis, Paris, 1975, vol. 16, p. 897.

12 Diogenes, No. 112, Winter, 1980.