Type, race, espèce Taxinomie humaine et mémoire contextuelle dans la Recherche

This article analyzes the concept of race, type, and even species, not from the point of view of the scientific readings it assumes, but as a mnemotechnical (an ars memoriae) and structuring method allowing the reader to get his/her bearings within this work–and later, once the book is closed, to remember it and thus consolidate one’s own mental library.