Loyer, Emmanuelle
Levi-Strauss: A Biography
- ISBN 13:
- 9781509511983
- author:
- Loyer, Emmanuelle
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Polity Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 740
- Dimensions:
- 23 x 16 x 6.3 centimetres (1.33
- Genre:
- Biography, General, Nonfiction
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Life of Intellectual Adventure This biography offers a profound and nuanced portrait of Claude Lévi-Strauss, a figure who transformed his academic discipline and profoundly changed the way we view ourselves and the world around us. Historian Emmanuelle Loyer recounts Lévi-Strauss's life with remarkable depth and insight, tracing his journey from an assimilated Jewish household to his pioneering work in anthropology. From his early years as a student to his later years as a renowned intellectual, Lévi-Strauss navigated complex personal and professional circumstances, including the racial laws of the Vichy regime and his eventual exile to the USA. Through it all, he produced some of the most influential works of 20th-century anthropology, including Tristes Tropiques. Loyer's outstanding biography sheds new light on Lévi-Strauss's life and work, portraying him as a true intellectual adventurer whose unforgettable voice invites us to rethink questions of the human and the meaning of progress.
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