Wild Thought

A New Translation of "la Pensee Sauvage"

Claude Levi-Strauss (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2021
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-20801-5 (ISBN)

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Perhaps the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude Levi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought, equal to that of phenomenology and existentialism. Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned from linguistics and from sociology and ethnology, Levi-Strauss elaborated his theory of structural unity in culture and became the preeminent representative of structural anthropology. La Pensee sauvage, published in French in 1962, was his crowning achievement. Ranging over philosophies, historical periods, and human societies, it challenged the prevailing assumption of the superiority of modern Western culture and sought to explain the unity of human intellection. Unfortunately titled The Savage Mind when it first published in English in 1966, the original translation nevertheless sparked a fascination with Levi-Strauss's work among generations of Anglophone readers. Wild Thought: A New Translation of "La Pensee sauvage" rekindles that spark with a fresh and accessible new translation. Including critical annotations for the contemporary reader, it restores the accuracy and integrity of the book that changed the course of twentieth-century thought, making it an indispensable addition to any philosophical and anthropological library.

Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) is the most important anthropologist of the twentieth century, a leader in structuralist thought, and one of the key figures in the history of modern thought. He held the chair of social anthropology at the College de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Academie francaise in 1973. His many influential works include Tristes Tropiques, Structural Anthropology, Totemism, and Wild Thought, among others. The Press has published many English editions of his works. Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor of French at Boston University. He is the author of several books, as well as a translator of many texts by Lacan and Derrida, among others. John Leavitt is a translator and professeur titulaire of anthropology at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Linguistic Relativities and the editor of Poetry and Prophecy.

Translators’ Introduction

by John Leavitt

Prospectus for La Pensée sauvage, 1962

Preface

1   The Science of the Concrete

2   The Logic of Totemic Classifications

3   Systems of Transformation

4   Totem and Caste

5   Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers

6   Universalization and Particularization

7   The Individual as Species

8   Time Regained

9   History and Dialectic

Appendix: On the Wild Pansy

Bibliography

Notes to the Translation

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.03.2021
Übersetzer	Jeffrey Mehlman, John Leavitt
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-226-20801-X / 022620801X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-20801-5 / 9780226208015
Zustand	Neuware