野性的思维（La Pensée sauvage）

简介

Lévi-Strauss published the book in 1962 and dedicated it to the memory of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who had died the year before. The French title is a pun: “pensées sauvages” also means wild pansies, which appeared on the cover. Lévi-Strauss argues that the thought of so-called primitive peoples is a “science of the concrete”, which classifies plants, animals and social groups with great precision. Like a bricoleur who works with whatever is at hand, mythical thought recombines existing elements, whereas the engineer designs tools for a project. The book reinterprets totemism as a system of classification. The first English translation (1966) was titled The Savage Mind.

联系

承接了

• 普通语言学教程1916 · 费迪南·德·索绪尔

批评了

• 辩证理性批判1960 · 让-保罗·萨特

被承接于

• 超越自然与文化2005 · 菲利普·德斯科拉

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