Philosopher
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Overview
Claude Lévi-Strauss ( klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French: [klod levi stʁos]; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world.
Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques (1955) which established his position as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought. As well as sociology, his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, including philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity." He won the 1986 International Nonino Prize in Italy.
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Philosophers who discussed Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- René Girard
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Marshall McLuhan
- A. C. Grayling
- Michel Foucault
- Jacques Derrida
- Luce Irigaray
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
- Michel Serres
- Peter Serracino Inglott
Ideas Claude Lévi-Strauss discusses
- Washington, D.C.
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary
- Franz Boas
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Hamlet
- Historian
- Philosophy
- French National Centre for Scientific Research
- Immanuel Kant
- Ethnography
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Karl Marx
- Postcolonialism
- Life
- Harvard University
- Sociology
- Law
- Culture
- Great Depression
- The Guardian
- Cybernetics
- UNESCO
Place in the tradition
Part of A. C. Grayling.