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The language in which to articulate specific attitudes at various levels seems to be neglected in the study of law and meaning. When we talk about our self or the human I, our Body or our Mind, we need more complex expressions. We should talk of a YouI or a ThouI, also about an IThou, a MindBody that differs from a BodyMind, not to mention the diversity of expressions pertaining to the Brain and the Mind! Narrativity unfolds as if one particular occurrence in history of the cosmos initiated our meaning concept along the lines of what is called in the book the "master—master discourse".This sixth chapter researches that idea in the perspectives of name giving. It studies the differences between the Creation Story and the Paradise story as narrated in the Torah. It also observes that the Fall has been understood as a single partition, even a Great Partition, which became infinitely mirrored in the many stories of various cultures. But any "meaning in a new key" acknowledges that the latter is not a brute fact, not a point of logic to find an explanation of meaning, not—as already mentioned in the first chapter—a definitive breach of silence. While reaching beyond the particle story of Occidental culture, one understands meaning in a new key: as a linguistic articulation anchored in dimensions of human narrativity.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28175-9_6

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