Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée sauvage”
Autor Claude Lévi-Strauss Traducere de Jeffrey Mehlman, John Leavitten Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 feb 2021
Controversially titled The Savage Mind when it was first published in English in 1966, the original translation nevertheless sparked a fascination with Lévi-Strauss’s work among Anglophone readers. Wild Thought rekindles that spark with a fresh and accessible new translation. Including critical annotations for the contemporary reader, it restores the accuracy and integrity of the book that changed the course of intellectual life in the twentieth century, making it an indispensable addition to any philosophical or anthropological library.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226208015
ISBN-10: 022620801X
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 20 halftones, 19 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 022620801X
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: 20 halftones, 19 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) is the most important anthropologist of the twentieth century, a leader in structuralist thought, and one of the key figures in the history of modern thought. He held the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973. His many influential works include Tristes Tropiques, Structural Anthropology, Totemism, and Wild Thought, among others. The Press has published many English editions of his works. Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor of French at Boston University. He is the author of several books, as well as a translator of many texts by Lacan and Derrida, among others. John Leavitt is a translator and professeur titulaire of anthropology at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Linguistic Relativities and the editor of Poetry and Prophecy.
Cuprins
Translators’ Introduction
by John Leavitt
Prospectus for La Pensée sauvage, 1962
Preface
1 The Science of the Concrete
2 The Logic of Totemic Classifications
3 Systems of Transformation
4 Totem and Caste
5 Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers
6 Universalization and Particularization
7 The Individual as Species
8 Time Regained
9 History and Dialectic
Appendix: On the Wild Pansy
Bibliography
Notes to the Translation
Index
by John Leavitt
Prospectus for La Pensée sauvage, 1962
Preface
1 The Science of the Concrete
2 The Logic of Totemic Classifications
3 Systems of Transformation
4 Totem and Caste
5 Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers
6 Universalization and Particularization
7 The Individual as Species
8 Time Regained
9 History and Dialectic
Appendix: On the Wild Pansy
Bibliography
Notes to the Translation
Index
Recenzii
“The arrival of Mehlman and Leavitt’s new translation is, then, an event. Finally, there is a fresh, agile English rendering of one of the 20th century’s greatest, strangest and most challenging works.”
"An accessible new translation of the modern classic by the predominant theorist of structural anthropology, this tome displaced Western culture’s sense of its own superiority and showed the structural unity of human intellect."
"The new title points to what the book subverts, namely the assumption that societies described as ‘primitive’ are intellectually undeveloped. Lévi-Srauss shows, on the contrary, an equality in their compulsion to observe and record distinctions and patterns."
“This new translation of Lévi-Strauss’s masterpiece is a revelation. To read Wild Thought is to marvel in the curiosity not only of its illustrious author but also of the countless people whose conceptual wizardry spills out onto the pages. In engaging and delightful prose, Wild Thought lets Anglophone readers at last relish the sheer joyousness and ingenuity of an unparalleled intellectual adventure.”
“At last, a definitive and extensively annotated translation of Lévi-Strauss’s prescient La Pensée sauvage. Cultivating wild forms of thought is more important today than Lévi-Strauss could ever have imagined.”
“Wild Thought marks the turning point in Lévi-Strauss's long career, opening the way for his monumental analysis of the mythology of the Americas. But above all, it is the book that put anthropology at the forefront of the human sciences, by methodically dissolving the evolutionist and colonialist presuppositions of the whole metaphysical machinery of Reason, History, and Progress. This much-needed new English translation will reintroduce Lévi-Strauss's essential work for the next generation of scholars and expert anthropologists alike.”
“Wild Thought is a fantastic rendering—a timely translation for anthropology’s most timeless mind.”