Confronting the cognitive anthropology of Jack Goody to some levinassian concerns. The list, the table, the formula : making ideas into space, the system of concepts inherit from the spatial properties of the support of inscription. With the list starts categorisation. Making a list of those I love as a provocation to essence. All I got is a list of names, I kind of miss them all.

Goody, Jack, Jean Bazin, et Alban Bensa. La Raison graphique  : la domestication de la pensée sauvage. Paris : Editions de Minuit, 1986.

Levinas, Emmanuel. Le temps et l’autre. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2004 (recueil de conférences de 1946-1947) .