Author : Christopher Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016674
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (166 download)
Book Synopsis Claude Lévi-Strauss by : Christopher Johnson
Download or read book Claude Lévi-Strauss written by Christopher Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lévi-Strauss is one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. His theory of structuralism has been influential not only in anthropology, but across the entire field of the humanities and social sciences. This book looks at the formative period of his career, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, where he attempts to define both his own place in anthropology and the place of anthropology in the wider context of the human sciences in France. Through a close reading of key texts, Christopher Johnson provides an introduction to key aspects of Lévi-Strauss thought, at the same time posing more general questions concerning the construction of theory and the different modes of conceptualization that inform theory. Johnson looks at the ideological and autobiographical dimensions of Lévi-Strauss work, and demonstrates how the impact of structuralism as an intellectual movement has clearly been greater than the sum of its theoretical parts.