Claude Lévi-Strauss : the bearer of ashes
- Abingdon : Routledge, 2017
- x, 263 p. ; 23 cm
- Routledge library editions. Social and cultural anthropology .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Lévi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century yet he is a very private and isolated figure, who has been reticent about himself. This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews. His personal existential and psychological orientation is explored through a structural analysis of Tristes Tropiques, his most personal book, and his writings on art, nature and civilization and through a consideration of his debt to Rousseau. Dr Pace examines in depth L.