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| ====== Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 - 2009) ====== | ====== Triste Tropoiques (excerpt)_ by Claude Lévi-Strauss ====== |
| Rothenberg presents an excerpt from //Tristes Tropiques// (1955) literally "Sad Tropics", published in French and translated by John Russell, pp. 126-27. Lévi-Strauss's thinking about human relationships with the self, other selves, and nature blends philosophical explorations about the inward facing work of studying identity with prescriptive scientific thinking rooted in sociology and structuralism. Critical concepts like //bricolge// and //the new wilderness// show an overlap between thinkers like [[omnipoetics:durkheim-on_ritual_and_theater|Durkheim]] and Rothenberg's project that promote universalizing poetics. | |
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| | //Tristes Tropiques//."//Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward and Ethnopoetics//. edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg, University of California Press, 1983, pp. 57-59. |
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| | Rothenberg presents an excerpt from //Tristes Tropiques// (1955) literally "Sad Tropics", published in French and translated by John Russell, ((Rothenberg Symposium pp. 126-27)). Lévi-Strauss's thinking about human relationships with the self, other selves, and nature blends philosophical explorations about the inward facing work of studying identity with prescriptive scientific thinking rooted in sociology and structuralism. Critical concepts like //bricolge// and //the new wilderness// show an overlap between thinkers like [[omnipoetics:durkheim-on_ritual_and_theater|Durkheim]] and Rothenberg's project that promote universalizing poetics. |
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| "Structural anthropology" according to Lévi-Strauss attempts to work outside of the [primitive / civilized] binary. This way of thinking critically considers the fundamental relationships of social and aesthetic reality and requires us to know the structure from both the standpoint of an objective social scientist and a human being and a creative mind with immense sense perception. | "Structural anthropology" according to Lévi-Strauss attempts to work outside of the [primitive / civilized] binary. This way of thinking critically considers the fundamental relationships of social and aesthetic reality and requires us to know the structure from both the standpoint of an objective social scientist and a human being and a creative mind with immense sense perception. |
| No wonder Lévi-Strauss cites the visionary poet Rimbaud's [[https://chromaticcabinet.swarthmore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Voyelles2.pdf|"Sonnet des voyelles"]] There are many aspects to Poetry, of course, some poets inscribe symbols of national unity in verse and narrate history through epic, but the asthetic turn inward in twentieth-century symbolist poetry invites the reader to withdraw from society. For a further discussion, see how Edmond Wilson traces the Symbolist desire for experience, which they inherited from the Romantics, and later traded "the experience of the outside world for the experience of the imagination alone" (Wilson 206). | No wonder Lévi-Strauss cites the visionary poet Rimbaud's [[https://chromaticcabinet.swarthmore.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Voyelles2.pdf|"Sonnet des voyelles"]] There are many aspects to Poetry, of course, some poets inscribe symbols of national unity in verse and narrate history through epic, but the asthetic turn inward in twentieth-century symbolist poetry invites the reader to withdraw from society. For a further discussion, see how Edmond Wilson traces the Symbolist desire for experience, which they inherited from the Romantics, and later traded "the experience of the outside world for the experience of the imagination alone" (Wilson 206). |
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| Lévi-Strauss, Claude. "from //Tristes Tropiques//."//Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward and Ethnopoetics//. edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg, University of California Press, 1983, pp. 57-59. | Lévi-Strauss, Claude. "from //Tristes Tropiques//."//Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward and Ethnopoetics//. edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Diane Rothenberg, University of California Press, 1983, pp. 57-59. |
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| Wilson, Edmund. "Axel and Rimbaud". //Axel's Castle//, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004 pp. 205-236. | Wilson, Edmund. "Axel and Rimbaud". //Axel's Castle//, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004, pp. 205-236. |
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