1st Edition

Claude Levi-Strauss The Bearer of Ashes

By David Pace Copyright 1983
276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

276 Pages
by Routledge

Lévi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century yet he is a very private and isolated figure, who has been reticent about himself. This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews. His personal existential and psychological orientation is explored... Read more

1. The Artisan of Knowledge  2. The Confessions of Lévi-Strauss  3. Nature, Art and Authenticity  4. Echoes of Rousseau  5. The Critique of Cultural Evolution  6. Out of History  7. The Semantics of Ethnocentrism  8. A Universe of Rules  9. The Anthropology of Ressentiment

Biography

Pace, David