ISBN:
0-85527-816-1
,
978-0-85527-816-8
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 180 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Keywords:
Strukturalismus Sozialpsychologie
;
Psychologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Natur
;
Gesellschaftskritik
;
Individuum und Gesellschaft
;
Identität
;
Mythos
;
Werkkritik
;
Lévi-Strauss, Claude [Leben und Werk]
;
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques [Leben und Werk]
;
Marx, Karl [Leben und Werk]
;
Sartre, Jean-Paul [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
In Thomas Shalvey's analysis, the question that Claude Lévi-Strauss's life-work confronts is asked in the second book of the Republic: does man form the social, as Glaucon proposes in that dialogue, or does the collective enterprise form man, as Socrates argues? Shalvey records that Lévi-Strauss's answer to this is the absolute priority of the collective over the individual.[The book] examines Lévi-Strauss's thought in pursuit of underlying laws that stamp man as a collective being. The book traces those multifarious streams appearing to flow from sociology (Durkheim and Mauss), linguistics and psychanalysis (Jacobsen and Lacan), and emerging in the synthesis of Lévi-Strauss's complex works.According to Lévi-Strauss, the source of man's basic nature is the collective unconscious. Thus, Shalvey notes that man owes his identity not to the Cartesian "I think, therefore I am" - the individualistic belief founding modern French philosophy - but solely to his invariable transmission of certain unconscious structures, or ways of thinking, which perpetuate the collective enterprise, or culture.Owing a great debt to Freud's "grammar of the individual psyche," Lévi-Strauss's structuralism is, for Shalvey, the attempt to locate what is human whithin a scientific logic. Man's thought is simply, in this view, one among other objects in the world. Subsuming even Hegel's dialectical reasoning, structuralism replaces the view of man as centerpice of his own understanding of the world with a panorama placing man on a coequal footing with the rest of creation, both animate and inanimate. In this, man becomes homologous to nature, even is nature. The author also reviews the most important criticisms of structuralism, quoting, in defense, from its prominent theorists. In a final chapter, he compares Claude Lévi-Strauss to the scholastics a s synthesizer of major contemporary views on the subject of man's identitiy - from Rousseau to Sartre, Marx to Freud.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations and translations -- Introduction -- The intellectual context -- The logic of the unconcious -- The Lévi-Straussian reinterpretation of the unconcious -- There are no privileged societies -- Rousseau and Lévi-Strauss -- Lévi-Strauss and Marx -- Some issues and criticisms -- Lévi-Strauss: Last of the scholastics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 172 - 177
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