The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss

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Cambridge University Press, 5/14/2009
EAN 9780521846301, ISBN10: 0521846307

Hardcover, 350 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Language: English

Claude LÃƒÂ©vi-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 LÃƒÂ©vi-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 clichÃƒÂ©s 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 LÃƒÂ©vi-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.

Introduction Boris Wiseman
Part I. Society and Culture
1. LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss and the question of humanism Denis Kambouchner
2. LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss and history Michael E. Harkin
3. Structure and exchange Abraham Rosman and Paula G. Rubel
4. The future of the structural theory of kinship Marcela Coelho de Souza
Part II. Myth and Mind
5. The two natures of LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss Philippe Descola
6. On anthropological knowledge Claude Imbert
7. The limits of classification
Claude LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss and Mary Douglas FrÃƒÂ©dÃƒÂ©ric Keck
8. The local and the universal Eric Schwimmer
9. LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss and the question of symbolism Marcel HÃƒÂ©naff
10. Claude LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss's theoretical and actual approaches to myth Wendy Doniger
Part III. Language and Alterity
11. Of The Story of Lynx
LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss and alterity Peter Gow
12. Before Babel
language and languages in LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss Christopher Johnson
Part IV. Literature and Aesthetics
13. Structuralism, poetry, music
LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss between MallarmÃƒÂ© and Wagner Jeffrey Mehlman
14. Morphology and structural aesthetics
from Goethe to LÃƒÂ©vi-Strauss Jean Petitot
15. Structure and sensation Boris Wiseman.