Died 2009-10-30.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Lévi-Strauss was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in P…
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politics · French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009) · philosopher · politician · anthropologist · photographer · pedagogue · writer · professor · sociologist · psychologist · mythographer · also Claude Lévi-Strauss, קלוד לוי-שטראוס, Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss, Claude Levi-Strauss, Klod Levi-Stros
Born 28 November 1908 · Died 30 October 2009 · Q128126
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2009· 8 entries
“Jeśli, jak utrzymujemy, nieuświadamiana działalność umysłu polega na nakładaniu form na pewną treść, jeśli nadto formy te są zasadniczo tożsame dla wszystkich umysłów (…) – to trzeba i wystarczy dotrzeć do nieuświadamianej struktury utajonej za każdą instytucją i każdym zwyczajem, aby zatrzymać zasadę interpretacji stosowalną prawomocnie do innych instytucji i innych zwyczajów.”
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“Strukturalizm zmierza do obiektywizmu, badając najchętniej zjawiska, które powstają niezależnie od złudzeń świadomej myśli i dają się określić za pomocą stosunkowo ograniczonej liczby zmiennych pozwalających wyjaśnić różne formy, jakie te same zjawiska przybierają w odmiennych społeczeństwach.”
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“Gdy pracuję przeżywam chwile lęku, ale gdy nie pracuję, doznaję tępego niezadowolenia i uwiera mnie własna świadomość. Życie poświęcone pracy nie jest radośniejsze od innego, ale przynajmniej człowiek nie zauważa przemijania czasu.”
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“W gruncie rzeczy jestem po prostu kantystą.”
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“W gruncie rzeczy włóczyłem się po świecie jak zombi z poczuciem wyobcowania.”
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“Jeśli uda nam się lepiej poznać obce społeczeństwa, zyskamy przynajmniej środki, by oderwać się od naszego społeczeństwa – nie dlatego, by było ono bez reszty złe, lecz dlatego, że jest jedynym, od którego musimy się zdystansować.”
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“Kto pragnie poznać ludzi, musi rozejrzeć się we własnym otoczeniu. Ale kto chce poznać człowieka jako takiego, musi się nauczyć kierować wzrok w dal.”
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2008· 1 entry
Became the first member of the Académie française to reach the age of 100 and one of the few living authors to have his works published in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
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2007· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2007).
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Catalonia International Prize (2005).
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Received the XVII Premi Internacional Catalunya (Generalitat of Catalonia)
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Meister Eckhart Prize (2003).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Aby Warburg Prize (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded grand prix de la Société de géographie (1993).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded International Nonino Prize (1986).
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1981).
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at the Laval University (1979).
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala (1977).
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1973· 4 entries
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1973).
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And was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris
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Career landmark: seat 29 of the Académie française (1973–2009).
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The Meister-Eckhart-Prize for philosophy in 2003, and several honorary doctorates from universities such as Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and Columbia
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1972· 1 entry
“Interview with Claude Lévi Strauss”
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1967· 1 entry
Won CNRS Gold medal (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
Won Huxley Memorial Medal (1965).
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1962· 1 entry
Lévi-Strauss published what is for many people his most important work, La Pensée sauvage, translated into English as The Savage Mind (and later as Wild Thought)
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1961· 1 entry
“Claude Lévi-Strauss, social constructivism and syllables across languages”
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1960· 1 entry
And the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1967
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1956· 1 entry
Became foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1955· 1 entry
Became one of France's best-known intellectuals by publishing Tristes Tropiques in Paris that year by Plon (best-known translated into English in 1973, published by Penguin)
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1949· 1 entry
And quickly came to be regarded as one of the most important anthropological works on kinship
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1942· 1 entry
While having dinner at the Faculty House at Columbia, Boas died in Lévi-Strauss's arms
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1941· 1 entry
Was offered a position at the New School for Social Research in New York City and granted admission to the United States
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1940· 1 entry
Was employed at a lycée in Montpellier, but then was dismissed under the Vichy racial laws (Lévi-Strauss's family, originally from Alsace, was of Jewish ancestry)
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1939· 1 entry
To take part in the war effort and was assigned as a liaison agent to the Maginot Line
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1938· 1 entry
Returned for a second, more than half-year-long expedition to study the Nambikwara and Tupi-Kawahib societies
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1936· 1 entry
“Contribution à l'étude de l'organisation sociale des Indiens Bororo”
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1935· 1 entry
After a few years of secondary school teaching, he took up a last-minute offer to be part of a French cultural mission to Brazil in which he would serve as a visiting professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo
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1931· 1 entry
Passed the agrégation, coming in 3rd place, and youngest in his class at age 22
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1929· 1 entry
Opted for philosophy over law (which he found boring), and from 1930 to 1931, put politics aside to focus on preparing for the agrégation in philosophy, in order to qualify as a professor
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1926· 1 entry
Went to Sorbonne in Paris, studying law and philosophy, as well as engaging in socialist politics and activism
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1908· 2 entries
Born 1908-11-28.
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To French-Jewish (turned agnostic) parents who were living in Brussels, where his father was working as a portrait painter at the time
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