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)

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)

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。

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)

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)

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)

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。

Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the last. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson ...(展开全部)

Primo Levi wrote books that have been called "the essential works of humankind," including Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining to his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the end. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unr...(展开全部)

Éric Rohmer set the terms by which people watched, made, and thought about cinema for decades. This exhaustive biography uses personal archives and interviews to enrich our knowledge of Rohmer's public achievements and lesser known interests. Despite an austere approach to life, Rohmer had a voracious appetite for art, culture, and intellectual debate captured vividly in this d...(展开全部)