Le logos - entre magie et sémanticité.

The present paper intends to examine the controversial nature of logos. It takes a multidisciplinary approach, because this is one of the most "bewildering" questions for linguists, philosophers, anthropologists or psychologists, generating widely divergent views. The apophantik view starts from the assumption that language "blocks" the way to the essence of things. Or, as we try to argue in this present paper, this view is only a "myth", created to "hide" our ontological impossibility of a direct contact with things themselves. The pragmatik interpretation considers language only as a tool of communication. Language is, of course, a tool of communication, but, as we have tried to show, this is not its primordial nature. There is also a "magic" view, according to which language is a sort of supernatural force that can help the human being "to compel the will of gods and demons". The aim of this paper is to show that language itself, far from being a human "disease", a pragmatic tool or a magic weapon, is merely "the principle of the universe and the first principle of knowledge" (Cassirer). By its very nature and essence, language is logos semantikos: its purpose is not to create the beings, but to create the being of beings, according to Eugenio Coseriu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]