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301.092 LAR Reading Pierre Bourdieu in a dual context : essays from India and France | 301.092 LEV Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss | 301.092 MOM Age of capitalism and bureaucracy : perspectives on the political sociology of Max Weber | 301.092 PAC Claude Lévi-Strauss : the bearer of ashes | 301.092 SMI Erving Goffman | 301.092 WIL Claude Levi-Strauss : the poet in the laboratory. | 301.0922 BAS Social thinkers of modern times |
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.
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