¿Qué hace la historia de las ideas? Describir campechanamente lo que descubre al seguir el hilo de la progresión temporal. Esto, objeta Foucault, es confundir la aparición de las dispersas ruinas de un templo con el templo mismo. Y, ríe de esta insuficiencia y de esta ingenuidad…
Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors' intellectual differences; but, as Marc Augé argues in this book, first published in English in 1982, these differences may in fact be intrinsically derived from…
Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors' intellectual differences; but, as Marc Augé argues in this book, first published in English in 1982, these differences may in fact be intrinsically derived from…
From Montaigne to Montaigne
by Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Lévi-Strauss, Claude, Skafish, Peter
"This slim volume, published in the same series as Foucault's Language, Madness, and Desire. It brings together two lectures that Lévi-Strauss gave on the French essayist Montaigne: one given in 1937 and the second in 1992"-- n January 1937, Levi-Strauss gave a lecture that dis…
The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"
"The Perils of Uglytown develops a new concept, structural misanthropology, and traces its operation first in the dialogues of Plato and then in the work of humanists, playwrights, and painters of the Renaissance in Italy, England, and the Netherlands"--
