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Informationen zum Autor Boris Wiseman is Lecturer in French at the University of Durham. Klappentext In a wide-ranging and original study of Claude Lévi-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 Lévi-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 that Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic theory forms an integral part of his approach to Amerindian masks! body decoration and mythology. He reveals the significance of Lévi-Strauss's anthropological analysis of an 'untamed' mode of thinking (pensée sauvage) at work in totemism! classification and myth-making for his conception of art and aesthetic experience. In this way! structural anthropology is shown to lead to ethnoaesthetics. Lévi-Strauss! Anthropology and Aesthetics adopts a broad-ranging approach that combines the different perspectives of anthropology! philosophy! aesthetic theory and literary criticism into an unusual and imaginative whole. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging 2007 study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought demonstrates not only its centrality within his overall oeuvre but also the importance of Levi-Strauss for contemporary aesthetic enquiry. Lévi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics combines the different perspectives of anthropology, philosophy, aesthetic theory and literary criticism into a highly imaginative whole. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Ethnoaesthetics; 1. The reconciliation; 2. Art and the logic of sensible qualities; 3. The work of art as a system of signs; 4. Structuralism, symbolist poetics and abstract art; 5. The anthropologist as art critic; 6. Nature, culture, chance; 7. From myth to music; 8. Lévi-Strauss' mytho-poem; Conclusion: between concept and metaphor....
