Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics

di Boris Wiseman (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2009

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 levels in the elaboration of his system of thought, Wiseman demonstrates that Levi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks, body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Levi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensee 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. Levi-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.

• Autore: Boris Wiseman
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Ideas in Context
• Anno: 2009
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 264 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 390 gr.
• EAN: 9780521123013

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