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Claude Lévi-Strauss on Contradictions - Dictionary of Arguments
I 114 Contradictions/order/nature/Lévi-Strauss: the nature is not contradictory in itself. The human being does not passively perceive nature, but organizes it. The human dissolves them into individual parts after he/she has reduced them to terms, in order to derive a system that is never determined in advance. There are always different ways of splitting up. >Order/Lévi-Strauss, >Nature/Lévi-Strauss. Lévi-StraussVsNaturalism/Lévi-StraussVsMannhardt: Mannhart's error and naturalistic school was to believe that the natural phenomena are what the myths try to explain. Instead, they are much rather that by means of which the myths seek to explain the realities, which themselves are not natural but of logical order. I 115 The object of contradictions counts less than the fact that contradictions exist at all. The forms of contradictions are much less diverse than their empirical content. Religious Belief/Lévi-Strauss: one can never underscore enough the meagreness of religious thought; it explains why people so often resort to the same means for solving problems whose concrete elements can be very different, but who have in common that they all belong to "structures of contradiction". >Religious belief/Lévi-Strauss._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
LevSt I Claude Lévi-Strauss La pensée sauvage, Paris 1962 German Edition: Das Wilde Denken Frankfurt/M. 1973 LevSt II C. Levi-Strauss The Savage Mind (The Nature of Human Society Series) Chicago 1966 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-24