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claude levi-strauss is dead

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ponymalta:

I am two days late on this matter.  It’s hard to say in regard to his death, “That’s so sad,” because he was nearly 101 years old, and old Claude had a really long, really incredible life and an amazing, nowadays-impossible career, and so he’s a lucky man for getting to die after doing millions and millions of cool things, rather than before.

I’m checking out Tristes tropiques from the library, which is a great autobiography and if you haven’t read it, you should.  He’s not really an anthropologist per se (so whether or not you are interested in that shouldn’t matter) but more a philosopher vis-a-vis myth.  So if you like stories, he is the guy for you, and also he was

He was also a decent-sized figure in the world of literary theory—not quite at the Derrida level, but getting about as many mentions as Baudrillard.

Strange, I always thought of Levi-Strauss as more important than Derrida, though, I guess less relevant these days.

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   Strange, I always thought of Levi-Strauss as more important than Derrida, though, I guess less relevant these days.

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   Is he the man that gave us “button fly”?

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   decent-sized figure in the world...literary theory—not quite at

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