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1996
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Annamaria Rivera, « Nature et culture : quelques remarques sur la bestialisation des hommes et des animaux », L'Homme et la société, ID : 10.3406/homso.1996.2828
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Rivera, Annamaria, Nature and Culture The tendency to naturalize the social world dominates contemporary scientific discourse. This discourse cultivates a conception of nature that can be called "essentialist". In it, nature appears to be given a prescriptive role, and even a moral orientation. It is a conceptual orientation that results from a process of reification. The double process of the anthropomorphism of nature and the naturalization of society is instrumental in perpetuating the prevailing social order and in justifying economic liberalism.