When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial-era study of “exotic” tri...(展开全部)

In this lucide guide to the often abstruse works of Claude Levi-Strauss, Edmund Leach synthesizes the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest anthropologists and provides a thoughtful introduction to the theory and practice of structuralism. Leach organizes his work not by chronology but by theme, exploring three important topics in Levi-Strauss's work: human beings ...(展开全部)

The definitive account of the life, work, and legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss, father of modern anthropology and one of the postwar era's most influential thinkers. When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away last October at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but also one of the defining intellectuals of the twentieth cent...(展开全部)

In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Levi-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 Levi-Strauss's thinking on aesthetics, and showing how anthropological and aesthetic ideas intertwine at the most elemental l...(展开全部)

文字作者 鲍里斯·魏斯曼 英国杜伦大学法语系讲师。他曾在伦敦大学国王学院、伦敦政治经济学院学习法语和人类学，其博士论文研究列维- 斯特劳斯的美学思想。 插图作者 朱迪·格罗夫斯 艺术家、插画家和设计师。她同时也是本套丛书系列中的 《 维特根斯坦》 《 拉康》《柏拉图》《乔姆斯基》等书的插图作者。 译者 陈龙 毕业于中国人民大学文学院，现任教于中国社会科学院大学。

文字作者 鲍里斯·魏斯曼 英国杜伦大学法语系讲师。他曾在伦敦大学国王学院、伦敦政治经济学院学习法语和人类学，其博士论文研究列维- 斯特劳斯的美学思想。 插图作者 朱迪·格罗夫斯 艺术家、插画家和设计师。她同时也是本套丛书系列中的 《 维特根斯坦》 《 拉康》《柏拉图》《乔姆斯基》等书的插图作者。 译者 陈龙 毕业于中国人民大学文学院，现任教于中国社会科学院大学。

Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle Loyer recounts Lévi-Strauss’s childhood in an assimilated Jewish household, his promising student years as well as...(展开全部)

THE STORY OF FATHERHOOD AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A FATHER TODAY, BASED ON A DECADE-LONG STUDY OF NEW AND EXPECTANT FATHERS. Becoming a father is one of most common but also one of the most profoundly life-altering experiences a man can have. It is up there with puberty, falling in love and experiencing your first loss. Fifty years ago a father’s role was assumed to be clear: he...(展开全部)

Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states. All the while he enjoyed a successful career as composer, as conductor of international stature, as organizer for the rights of composers,...(展开全部)

Richard Strauss saw an empire come and go, survived two world wars, witnessed the rise and fall of the Weimar Republic, endured the period of National Socialism, and died the year that Germany was officially divided into two separate states. All the while he enjoyed a successful career as composer, as conductor of international stature, as organizer for the rights of composers,...(展开全部)