لوی استراوس، مردم شناسی، و زیبایی شناسی (ایده در زمینه) Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics (Ideas in Context)
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- نویسنده : Boris Wiseman
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2007
- شابک / ISBN : 9780511585883, 0521875293, 9780521123013, 0521123011, 0511585888, 9780521875295
Description
In a wide-ranging and original 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.
