{"product_id":"wild-thought-a-new-translation-of-la-pens233e-sauvage-9780226208015","title":"Wild Thought  A New Translation of La Pens233e","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The arrival of Mehlman and Leavitt’s new translation is, then, an event. Finally, there is a fresh, agile English rendering of one of the 20th century’s greatest, strangest and most challenging works.”\u003cbr\u003e   * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"An accessible new translation of the modern classic by the predominant theorist of structural anthropology, this tome displaced Western culture’s sense of its own superiority and showed the structural unity of human intellect.\" * The Bookseller *\u003cbr\u003e\"The new title points to what the book subverts, namely the assumption that societies described as ‘primitive’ are intellectually undeveloped. Lévi-Srauss shows, on the contrary, an equality in their compulsion to observe and record distinctions and patterns.\" * The Prisma *\u003cbr\u003e“This new translation of Lévi-Strauss’s masterpiece is a revelation. To read \u003ci\u003eWild Thought\u003c\/i\u003e is to marvel in the curiosity not only of its illustrious author but also of the countless people whose conceptual wizardry spills out onto the pages. In engaging and delightful prose, \u003ci\u003eWild Thought\u003c\/i\u003e lets Anglophone readers at last relish the sheer joyousness and ingenuity of an unparalleled intellectual adventure.” * Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen *\u003cbr\u003e“At last, a definitive and extensively annotated translation of Lévi-Strauss’s prescient \u003ci\u003eLa Pensée sauvage.\u003c\/i\u003e Cultivating wild forms of thought is more important today than Lévi-Strauss could ever have imagined.” * Eduardo Kohn, McGill University *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWild Thought\u003c\/i\u003e marks the turning point in Lévi-Strauss's long career, opening the way for his monumental analysis of the mythology of the Americas. But above all, it is the book that put anthropology at the forefront of the human sciences, by methodically dissolving the evolutionist and colonialist presuppositions of the whole metaphysical machinery of Reason, History, and Progress. This much-needed new English translation will reintroduce Lévi-Strauss's essential work for the next generation of scholars and expert anthropologists alike.” * Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWild Thought\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastic rendering—a timely translation for anthropology’s most timeless mind.” * Matthew Engelke, Columbia University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslators’ Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eby John Leavitt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prospectus for \u003ci\u003eLa Pensée sauvage\u003c\/i\u003e, 1962\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1    The Science of the Concrete\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2    The Logic of Totemic Classifications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3    Systems of Transformation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4    Totem and Caste\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5    Categories, Elements, Species, Numbers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6    Universalization and Particularization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7    The Individual as Species\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8    Time Regained\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9    History and Dialectic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: On the Wild Pansy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes to the Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49399965122903,"sku":"9780226208015","price":61.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226208015.jpg?v=1730469292","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wild-thought-a-new-translation-of-la-pens233e-sauvage-9780226208015","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}