L’uomo e le sue norme. Per un’antropologia delle regole costitutive. Commento a: Gaetano Carcaterra, Le norme costitutive, Torino: Giappichelli, 2014

On again reading Gaetano Carcaterra’s book Le norme costitutive, published in 2014, forty years after its first provisional edition in 1974, the author proposes a new key to the reading of the book. The new key focuses on the anthropology, on the image of man, presupposed by Carcaterra’s theory of normativity. A twofold image of man emerges: (i) man as a “nomic animal”, i.e. an animal with the capacity to act in light of rules, and (ii) man as a “symbolic animal”, i.e. an animal with the capacity to make something symbolize (or mean) something beyond itself.