Wild thinking

Author: [French] Claude Lévi-Strauss, translated by Li Youzhen
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Publish Date: 1987-05-01
Features: In the arguments of this book, the author not only involves anthropology but also touches upon various aspects such as linguistics, logic, sociology, psychology, aesthetics, history, and philosophy. For example, the naming and classification of things, the relationship between structure and events, the relationship between nature and culture, the relationship between individual names and general names, the form and content of art, and the differentiation of historical concepts. The way of exposition is also unique, where philosophical, scientific, artistic, and literary languages are often interwoven. Additionally, although we may occasionally encounter terms borrowed from disciplines such as cybernetics, information theory, logical algebra, and structural linguistics in the sentences of this book, it is not a work of anthropology with a natural science style. Rather, it is a specialized theoretical anthropology with philosophical interests.