Research Catalog

Title

Wild thought : a new translation of "La pensée sauvage" / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt ; with annotations by John Leavitt.

Author

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Publication

• Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mehlman, Jeffrey
• Leavitt, John Harold, 1952-

Description

xxii, 357 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"Through a fertile mixture of insights gleaned from linguistics and from sociology and ethnology, Lévi-Strauss elaborated his theory of structural unity in culture and became the preeminent representative of structural anthropology. La Pensée 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. Fatefully titled The Savage Mind in English, the original translation nevertheless sparked a fascination with Lévi-Strauss's work among generations of Anglophone readers. Wild Thought: A New Translation of "La Pensée sauvage" rekindles that spark. An indispensable addition to any philosophical and anthropological library, this new translation, with critical annotations for the contemporary reader, restores the accuracy and integrity of the book that changed the course of twentieth-century thought"--

Uniform Title

Pensée sauvage. English

Alternative Title

Pensée sauvage.

Subject

• Ethnopsychology
• Folk classification
• Cognition
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The science of the concrete -- The logic of totemic classifications -- Systems of transformation -- Totem and caste -- Categories, elements, species, numbers -- Universalization and particularization -- The individual as species -- Time regained -- History and dialectic -- Appendix : on a wild pansy.

Call Number

JFE 21-4055

ISBN

• 9780226208015
• 022620801X
• 9780226413082
• 022641308X

LCCN

2020027878

OCLC

1200833562

Author

Lévi-Strauss, Claude, author.

Title

Wild thought : a new translation of "La pensée sauvage" / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman and John Leavitt ; with annotations by John Leavitt.

Publisher

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Mehlman, Jeffrey, translator.

Leavitt, John Harold, 1952- translator, writer of supplementary textual content.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9780226413112

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4055