The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss (Cambridge Companion To Philosophy)

Claude Lévi-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 Lévi-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 Clichés 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 Lévi-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. -- Publisher's Description Lévi-strauss And The Question Of Humanism / Denis Kambouchner Followed By A Letter From Claude Lévi-strauss -- Lévi-strauss And History / Michael E. Harkin -- Structure And Exchange / Abraham Rosman And Paula G. Rubel -- The Future Of The Structural Theory Of Kinship / Marcela Coelho De Souza -- The Two Natures Of Lévi-strauss / Philippe Descola -- On Anthropological Knowledge / Claude Imbert -- The Limits Of Classification : Claude Lévi-strauss And Mary Douglas / Frédéric Keck -- The Local And The Universal / Eric Schwimmer -- Lévi-strauss And The Question Of Symbolism / Marcel Hénaff -- Claude Lévi-strauss's Theoretical And Actual Approaches To Myth / Wendy Doniger -- Of The Story Of Lynx : Lévi-strauss And Alterity / Peter Gow -- Before Babel : Lévi-strauss And Language / Christopher Johnson -- Structuralism, Poetry, Music : Lévi-strauss Between Mallarmé And Wagner / Jeffrey Mehlman -- Morphology And Structural Aesthetics : From Goethe To Lévi-strauss / Jean Petitot -- Structure And Sensation / Boris Wiseman. Edited By Boris Wiseman. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Binder1 1 9780521608671i 1 Binder2 2 Pages de Binder1 2 Binder1 12 1 12 Chapter 0: Introduction 12 Society and culture 18 Myth and mind 20 Language and alterity 23 Literature and aesthetics 24 Notes 26 References 26 2 28 Chapter 1: Lévi-Strauss and the question of humanismfollowed by a letter from Claude Lévi-Strauss 28 1 28 2 30 3 33 Structural anthropology is not naturalism 33 4 39 The entropic theory of civilisation is not nihilism 39 5 42 The interest in `untamed thinking ́ is not a primitivism 42 6 45 References 1 3 48 Chapter 2: Lévi-Strauss and history 48 Social science, human science 49 The `debate ́ with Sartre 51 Hot and cold societies 55 Hot, cold and warm 57 The Story of Lynx an alternative history of the Americas 59 Race, culture and history 62 References 66 4 68 Chapter 3: Structure and exchange 68 References 87 5 89 Chapter 4: The future of the structural theory of kinship 89 Alliance and exchange one or two theories? 89 Cross-cousins and brothers-in-law a certain South American relationship..&e 93 Typologies from elementary to complex, and back... 97 Exchange, nature, culture and the Indians (again) 100 Notes 104 References 107 6 110 Chapter 5: The two natures of Lévi-Strauss 110 Notes 124 References 124 7 125 Chapter 6: On anthropological knowledge 125 Structuralism revisited 127 Lévi-Strausss options 133 Anthropology of the present world 135 Anthropological knowledge 139 Notes 144 References 145 8 146 Chapter 7: The limits of classification Claude Lévi-Strauss and Mary Douglas 146 The logic and semiotics of classifications in The Savage Mind 147 Ambiguity and contradiction in Purity and Danger 156 Notes 240 References 162 9 163 Chapter 8: The local and the universal 163 The three humanisms 164 The three components of anthropology 166 The objections to `optimal diversity ́ 167 From local to universal models 169 Pre-constrained elements 172 Myths the ethnological level 173 Myths epistemological novelties 175 Ethnology and mathematical logic 177 The canonical formula 179 Note 181 References 181 10 184 Chapter 9: Lévi-Strauss and the question of symbolism 184 The emergence and formation of the symbolic order society, culture, kinship 186 Exogamy and the incest taboo 186 Society as institution and the passage from nature to culture 188 Gift, reciprocity, alliance 189 Symbol, pact and reciprocity 191 The function of symbols and their effectiveness 193 Symbolic effectiveness 194 Symbol and sign 196 Operating schemas 197 Mythical narratives 198 Conclusion 200 Notes 201 References 201 11 203 Chapter 10: Claude Lévi-Strausss theoretical and actual approaches to myth 203 The apparent method 203 Reductionism and science 203 Minimal and other pairs, or, binary oppositions 204 Shoring up the method jumping off the structuralist bus 206 The actual method 208 Splitting hares 208 Bricolage and mythemes 209 Repetition and paradox 212 Unwilling universalism 214 Unknown historicism 216 Unconscious Freudianism 218 Notes 220 References 221 12 224 Chapter 11: Of The Story of Lynx Lévi-Strauss and alterity 224 A puzzle 225 Anthropology and colonialism 227 The sociology of recovery 230 The Lynx in Peruvian Amazonia 234 One world only 237 Acknowledgements 240 Notes 240 References 240 13 242 Chapter 12: Before Babel Lévi-Strauss and language 242 Notes 258 References 259 14 260 Chapter 13: Structuralism, poetry, music Lévi-Strauss between Mallarmé and Wagner 260 Notes 274 References 276 15 278 Chapter 14: Morphology and structural aesthetics: from Goethe to Lévi-Strauss 278 The morphological genealogy of structuralism in Claude Lévi-Strauss 278 The morphodynamic-structural triangle 281 Goethe, Lévi-Strauss and Propp 281 The Morphology-Structure and Nature-Culture unity 282 The birth of structuralism 283 Morphologies and transformations 284 Structure and composition in Aesthetics 284 Lévi-Strauss on Poussin: double articulation and composition 290 Conclusion 295 Notes 296 References 240 16 299 Chapter 15: Structure and sensation 299 Sensation and difference 301 Adherent logic 303 Symbolist echoes 308 Mythical thought 311 Notes 144 References 317 17 318 Bibliography of works by Claude Lévi-Strauss 318 18 324 9780521608671htl 324 The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss 324 9780521608671ttl -1 The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss 1 9780521608671imp -1 9780521608671toc -1 Contents 1 9780521608671lof -1 Figures 1 Chapter 3Figure 1Structure of FaSiDa marriage.65Figure 2Enga te exchange.71 1 Chapter 14Figure 1(a) The 2-D apparent contour of a cube in a generic position is perceived as that of a 3-D c 1 9780521608671loc -1 Contributors 1 9780521608671_index 326