"Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No "precis" is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."--Edmund Carpenter, "New York Times Book Review "
"No outline is possible; I can only say that reading this book is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page."--Edmund Leach, "Man "
"Levi-Strauss's books are tough: very scholarly, very dense, very rapid in argument. But once you have mastered him, human history can never be the same, nor indeed can one's view of contemporary society. And his latest book, "The Savage Mind," is his most comprehensive and certainly his most profound. Everyone interested in the history of ideas "must" read it; everyone interested in human institutions "should "read it."--J. H. Plumb, "Saturday Review"
"A constantly stimulating, informative and suggestive intellectual challenge."--Geoffrey Gorer, "The Observer," London
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克洛德·列维-斯特劳斯,法兰西学院荣誉退休教授,法兰西科学院院士,国际著名人类学家,法国结构主义人文学术思潮的主要创始人,以及当初五位“结构主义大师”中今日唯一健在者。
列维-斯特劳斯出生于1908年,青年时代爱好哲学,醉心于卢梭、弗洛伊德和马克思的思想;嗣后致力于文化人类学研究达50余年之久。20世纪30年代他曾在巴西考察当地土著社会多年。40年代旅美期间钻研英美人类学与结构语言学,陆续发表了大量研究成果。自1959年起任法兰西学院教授迄今。
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古代和中世纪的博物学家和炼金术士(如:哥林Galien、波里尼Pline、赫尔梅斯·特里斯美吉斯特Herme Trismegiste、大阿尔伯特Albert le Grand…)
“组织化的要求”对艺术与科学来说是共同的,因而“最卓越地进行着组织的分类学就具有显著的美学价值”。假定确实如此的话,审美感本身就能通向分类学,甚至会预先显示出某些分类学的结果。
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