Claude Levi-Strauss is dead

[Filuwaúrdjan]

100

[Kaine for Senate '18]

RIP.

[Linus Van Pelt]

Wow, who knew he was still alive.


(pre-emptive Fail for anyone who says something like "I don't know about his anthropology, but he sure did make good blue jeans".)

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wow, who knew he was still alive.

Gully presumably did. Don't know about anyone else here (not me, that's for sure).

Quite a few influential intellectuals have died this year - off the top of my head I can think of Peter Townsend, Leszek Kołakowski, Gerald Cohen and Ralf Dahrendorf. And, yeah, Kristol.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I strongly oppose his views, but RIP anyways.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

RIP. A few days short of 101 iirc (I know he was born in November).

Anyway I had just come online and saw this at the BBC website and came immediatly here to post this. Surprised actually that I was beaten to it. I thought I would be the only one who cared.

Anyway fantastic though bizarre mind and happened in the end to be wrong on nearly everything - I think the quote that "he was the only genius Anthropology (something amended to "the social sciences") ever produced" is pretty accurate despite this. He pretty much single-handely invented a whole new approach to social science which came to dominate (in a weird way based on a weird intrepretation tbh) the whole of French social science in the 50s and 60s. And for that reason alone he deserves both respect and condemnation - though the latter can wait. The man is dead.

The last of les intellectuals of the 50s - his old college buddies like Sartre and De Beavouir - as well as likes of Camus, Foucault, Barthes, et al. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of that milleu that fact alone makes me a little bit sad.

So RIP.

[JohnFKennedy]

Wow, who knew he was still alive.

Gully presumably did. Don't know about anyone else here (not me, that's for sure).

I've read some of Structural Anthropology - historians have borrowed ideas from him, most notably the concept of 'bricolage'.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Wow, who knew he was still alive.

Gully presumably did. Don't know about anyone else here (not me, that's for sure).

I've read some of Structural Anthropology - historians have borrowed ideas from him, most notably the concept of 'bricolage'.

Yes, that was one of his best ideas.

I'm actually really bummed by this tbh. And he was nearly 101.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wow, who knew he was still alive.

Gully presumably did. Don't know about anyone else here (not me, that's for sure).

I've read some of Structural Anthropology - historians have borrowed ideas from him, most notably the concept of 'bricolage'.

Some of his ideas were brought up in an MA class I was at about a month ago - despite the relative enthusiasm of the lecturer, the general reaction could be summed up in internetese: "wtf".

[Phony Moderate]

RIP Claude Levi-Strauss.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

I don't know that much of him, just what I've heard from experts of the realm. And the main thing I've heard is that a big part of his work has been to show that "primitive societies" and "modern ones" had the same mechanisms, that there wasn't civilized and uncivilized. If that's effectively the one who hold it up, good, something that I spontaneously considered obvious, but if I did, it may be because I'm the fruit of a society that more or less unconsciously bought such concepts, dunno.

Other than that, I don't like his speech on the overpopulation of the planet, seemed to be definitely pessimist, what I can't buy.

RIP?? What?? Nah, I don't believe in the soul, but I salute the being he has been.

[ilikeverin]

I couldn't believe he was still alive