Les derniers travaux de Trần Đức Thảo sur l’origine du langage et de la conscience (1975-1991). Les Recherches anthropologiques

Abstract

The secondary literature on Trần Đức Thảo has practically never taken into account his linguistic-philosophical writings of the 1980s. In the following paper, we will give the reader an overall overview of this work, from the publication of Investigations into the Origins of Language and Consciousness through Trần Đức Thảo’s return to Paris in 1991. In the 1980s, two solutions to the puzzle of the origin of language and consciousness can be observed in his published and unpublished texts. Both radically differ from what Thảo suggested in the 1960s and 1970s. In the following paper, we will also highlight the political commitment that provides context for Thảo’s research.

Keywords

• Thảo (Trần Đức)
• anthropological researches
• marxism
• language origins
• Homo habilis