Wild Thought A New Translation of "la Pensee Sauvage"
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Biographical note
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) is the most important anthropologist of the twentieth century, a leader in structuralist thought, and one of the key figures in the history of modern thought. He held the chair of social anthropology at the College de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Academie francaise in 1973. His many influential works include Tristes Tropiques, Structural Anthropology, Totemism, and Wild Thought, among others. The Press has published many English editions of his works. Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor of French at Boston University. He is the author of several books, as well as a translator of many texts by Lacan and Derrida, among others. John Leavitt is a translator and professeur titulaire of anthropology at the University of Montreal. He is the author of Linguistic Relativities and the editor of Poetry and Prophecy.“The arrival of Mehlman and Leavitt’s new translation is, then, an event. Finally, there is a fresh, agile English rendering of one of the 20th century’s greatest, strangest and most challenging works.”<br />
London Review of Books
"An accessible new translation of the modern classic by the predominant theorist of structural anthropology, this tome displaced Western culture’s sense of its own superiority and showed the structural unity of human intellect."
The Bookseller
"The new title points to what the book subverts, namely the assumption that societies described as ‘primitive’ are intellectually undeveloped. Lévi-Srauss shows, on the contrary, an equality in their compulsion to observe and record distinctions and patterns."
The Prisma
“This new translation of Lévi-Strauss’s masterpiece is a revelation. To read <i>Wild Thought</i> is to marvel in the curiosity not only of its illustrious author but also of the countless people whose conceptual wizardry spills out onto the pages. In engaging and delightful prose, <i>Wild Thought</i> lets Anglophone readers at last relish the sheer joyousness and ingenuity of an unparalleled intellectual adventure.”
Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen
“At last, a definitive and extensively annotated translation of Lévi-Strauss’s prescient <i>La Pensée sauvage.</i> Cultivating wild forms of thought is more important today than Lévi-Strauss could ever have imagined.”
Eduardo Kohn, McGill University
“<i>Wild Thought</i> marks the turning point in Lévi-Strauss's long career, opening the way for his monumental analysis of the mythology of the Americas. But above all, it is the book that put anthropology at the forefront of the human sciences, by methodically dissolving the evolutionist and colonialist presuppositions of the whole metaphysical machinery of Reason, History, and Progress. This much-needed new English translation will reintroduce Lévi-Strauss's essential work for the next generation of scholars and expert anthropologists alike.”
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
“<i>Wild Thought</i> is a fantastic rendering—a timely translation for anthropology’s most timeless mind.”
Matthew Engelke, Columbia University