The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss

by Edited by Boris Wiseman

• ISBN13: 9780521608671
• ISBN10: 0521608678
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781139801201
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-05-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Claude Lèvi-Strauss is one of the major thinkers of the modern age. Regarded as a crucial figure in the development of structuralism, his writings are studied across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy and literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Lèvi-Strauss presents a major reassessment of his work and influence. The fifteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume engage with the controversies that have surrounded his ideas, and they probe the concealed influences and clichès that have obscured a true understanding of his work. The contributors are experts drawn from a number of fields, demonstrating the durability and importance of Lèvi-Strauss's work in the academy. Written for students and researchers alike, these incisive, jargon-free essays will be essential reading for anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important thinker.

Author Biography

Boris Wiseman is Senior Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Society and culture	p. 17
Lévi-Strauss and the question of humanism Denis Kambouchner Followed By A Letter From Claude Lévi-Strauss	p. 19
Lévi-Strauss and history	p. 39
Structure and exchange Abraham Rosman	p. 59
The future of the structural theory of kinship	p. 80
Myth and mind	p. 101
The two natures of Lévi-Strauss	p. 103
On anthropological knowledge	p. 118
The limits of classification: Claude Lévi-Strauss and Mary Douglas	p. 139
The local and the universal	p. 156
Lévi-Strauss and the question of symbolism	p. 177
Claude Lévi-Strauss's theoretical and actual approaches to myth	p. 196
Language and alterity	p. 217
Of The Story of Lynx: Lévi-Strauss and alterity	p. 219
Before Babel: Lévi-Strauss and language	p. 237
Literature and aesthetics	p. 255
Structuralism, poetry, music: Lévi-Strauss between Mallarmé and Wagner	p. 257
Morphology and structural aesthetics: from Goethe to Lévi-Strauss	p. 275
Structure and sensation	p. 296
Bibliography of works by Claude Lévi-Strauss	p. 315
Index	p. 321
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