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Conversations with Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Didier Eribon
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 1991
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Business
ISBN
0226474755
9780226474755
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BSuKQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
At the age of eighty, one of the most influential yet reclusive intellectuals of the twentieth century consented to his first interviews in nearly thirty years. Hailed by
Le Figaro
as "an event," the resulting conversations between Claude L�vi-Strauss and Didier Eribon (a correspondent for
Le Nouvel Observateur
) reveal the great anthropologist speaking of his life and work with ease and humor.
Now available in English, the conversations are rich in L�vi-Strauss's candid appraisals of some of the best-known figures of the Parisian intelligentsia: surrealists Andr� Breton and Max Ernst, with whom L�vi-Strauss shared a bohemian life in 1940s Manhattan; de Beauvoir, Sartre, and Camus, the stars of existentialism; Leiris, Foucault, Dum�zil, Jacob, Lacan, and others. His long friendships with Jakobson and Merleau-Ponty are recalled, as well as his encounters with prominent figures in American anthropology: Lowie, Boas (who suddenly died in his chair beside L�vi-Strauss at a banquet at Columbia University), Benedict, Linton, Mead, and Kroeber.
L�vi-Strauss speaks frankly about how circumstances and his own inclinations, after his early fieldwork in Brazil, led him to embrace theoretical work. His straightforward answers to Eribon's penetrating questions—What is a myth? What is structuralism? Are you a philosopher?—clarify his intellectual motives and the development of his research; his influential role as an administrator, including the founding of the Laboratory of Social Anthropology and of the journal
L'Homme
; the course of his writings, from
Elementary Structures of Kinship
to
The Jealous Potter
; and his thoughts on the conduct of anthropology today.
Never before has L�vi-Strauss spoken so freely on so many aspects of his life: his initial failure to be elected to the Coll�ge de France; his reaction to the events of May 1968; his regrets at not being a great investigative reporter or playwright; his deep identification with Wagner, Proust, and Rousseau. This is a rare opportunity to become acquainted with a great thinker in all his dimensions.