ISBN:
9780511585883
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 243 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
Series Statement:
Ideas in context 85
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Print version
DDC:
111.85
Keywords:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude Criticism and interpretation
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude Philosophy
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Structural anthropology Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude ; Philosophy
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude ; Criticism and interpretation
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Structural anthropology ; Philosophy
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Aesthetics
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1908-2009
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Ästhetik
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Ethnologie
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Introduction: ethno-aesthetics -- 1. The reconciliation -- 2. Art and the logic of sensible qualities -- 3. The work of art as a system of signs -- 4. Structuralism, symbolist poetics and abstract art -- 5. The anthropologist as art critic -- 6. Nature, culture, chance -- 7. From myth to music -- 8. Lévi-Strauss's mytho-poem -- Conclusion: between concept and metaphor
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511585883
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