The Aesthetics of Claude Lévi-Strauss

Author: (French) Meijiyo; Huaiyu
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Lévi-Strauss is a renowned anthropologist and structuralist, hailed as one of the most influential thinkers in 20th-century France. Just as Strauss believed art is a condensation of the real, the author compresses his aesthetic thought. What is most enlightening is the analysis of shamanism, mythology, and art using the concepts of "unstable signifiers" and symbolic systems, as well as the convincing examination of the relationship between symbols and allegory. First and foremost, Strauss is an anthropologist. From the historical dimension of anthropology, he grants his aesthetic thought a significant place alongside "synchronic" studies, while also giving "diachronic" studies considerable weight. Lévi-Strauss is a renowned anthropologist and structuralist, hailed as one of the most influential thinkers in 20th-century France. Just as Strauss believed art is a condensation of the real, the author compresses his aesthetic thought. What is most enlightening is the analysis of shamanism, mythology, and art using the concepts of "unstable signifiers" and symbolic systems, as well as the convincing examination of the relationship between symbols and allegory. First and foremost, Strauss is an anthropologist. From the historical dimension of anthropology, he grants his aesthetic thought a significant place alongside "synchronic" studies, while also giving "diachronic" studies considerable weight.