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In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry. Reconstructing the internal logic of Lévi-Strauss's thinking on aesthetics, and showing how anthropological and aesthetic ideas intertwine at the most elemental levels in the elaboration of his system of thought, Wiseman demonstrates that Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Lévi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensée sauvage) at work in totemism, classification and myth-making for his conception of art and aesthetic experience. In this way, structural anthropology is shown to lead to ethnoaesthetics. Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics adopts a broad-ranging approach that combines the different perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, aesthetic theory and literary criticism into an unusual and imaginative whole.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Philosophy: aesthetics

• Full title: Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics
• Author: Boris Wiseman
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780521875295
• ISBN: 0521875293
• ID: 02048501
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 562 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. November 2007

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