Levi-Strauss, Anthropology, and Aesthetics

by Boris Wiseman

Book Overview

In a wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude L vi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry. Reconstructing the internal logic of L vi-Strauss's thinking on aesthetics, and showing how anthropological and aesthetic ideas intertwine at the most elemental levels in the elaboration of his system of thought, Wiseman demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521123011
• ISBN13: 9780521123013
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"