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Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss · French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009) · 1908–2009

Appears in 85 videos · 133 passages, 68 of them in depth.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani respects Lévi-Strauss's broad musical culture and his work on kinship1. He often returns to the overture of The Raw and the Cooked. There Lévi-Strauss makes Wagner the "undeniable father of the structural analysis of myths," replaces linguistics with music as the model and writes that music and myth "enter time only to leave it"2. From the raw-cooked pair, he retains the intermediate term, the fermented or the rotten, placed between the natural and the conventional3. From the study of kinship, he retains the incest prohibition, universal without being natural. Yet he counts Lévi-Strauss among the neo-Kantians: Lévi-Strauss accepts the formula "Kantianism without a transcendental subject," which does away with history4. He criticizes him for thinking only about "societies without history," which opens the way to culturalist relativism and to the liquidation of Marxism5. He also criticizes him for ignoring praxis, for his late Malthusianism and, in Tristes Tropiques, for the fantasy of the white man alone among the natives.

  1. 1#2.7 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 1:08:24
  2. 2Debussy27 Mar 2020 · 44:51
  3. 3Popper (Karl)3 Dec 2019 · 32:43
  4. 4EVERYTHING'S ALLOWED, BUT NOTHING IS POSSIBLE! Michel Clouscard, May 68, French Theory & Capitalism14 Jul 2021 · 23:47
  5. 510#6 Guerre et Paix : "Les pulsions de mort progressent en silence..." (Freud)8 Dec 2021 · 59:46

Summary produced automatically from 128 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Portrait: Lévi-StraussWho is this?

Claude Lévi-Strauss ( klawd LAY-vee STROWSS; French:; 28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a Belgian-born French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world. […]

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Series · 3 Dec 2020Musicosophy 2. From Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on music
  1. 0:44The Raw and the CookedIn the overture, he applies the double articulation to music and reproaches dodecaphonism for losing the public.
  2. 9:51The Raw and the CookedHe respects dodecaphonism but regrets that it cuts itself off from the public, unlike Bach.
  3. 13:14The Raw and the CookedHe has identified a symptom, even if the therapy can be debated.
  4. 19:26He is right: with dodecaphonism the coupling of the two grids decouples, a deadly symptom.
  5. 25:28The most intelligent thing he says: musical pleasure arises from the anticipation allowed by the code and from its subversion.
Season 9.2 · 9 Jun 20219 #23 "Ruled like music paper!" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss
  1. 31:01The Raw and the CookedCriticized by Clouscard, a figure of structuralism against Marxism; with the Mythologiques, he moves from linguistics to music.
  2. 1:26:44The Raw and the CookedWants to transcend the opposition of the sensible and the intelligible and restore secondary qualities to the commerce of truth.
  3. 1:37:47The Raw and the CookedThe exposition of myths demands musical forms: succession, relative density, solo and tutti, recitative and aria.
  4. 1:51:40The Raw and the CookedMyth and music are languages that transcend articulate language while requiring time.
Season 7 · 27 Mar 2020#1 - Harnessed to Confinitude
  1. 41:23The Raw and the CookedA reactionary respected for his musical culture; shows the logic of the savage mind and opens the Mythologiques.
  2. 42:57Structural AnthropologyHis model was Saussurean structural linguistics, which privileges the synchronic.
  3. 44:51The Raw and the CookedIn the opening: music and myths share a negation of time; music enters into time only better to leave it.
  4. 48:40A decisive thinker of the movement that made Marxism seem outdated in the philosophical field.
  5. 52:02He only became himself during his American interlude.
Series · 29 Jan 2016What is to be done? 1/3
  1. 37:43The Raw and the CookedBetween the raw and the cooked, there is the fermented: this mixture is the post-Rousseauian moment of his anthropology.
  2. 41:24The Elementary Structures of KinshipThe prohibition of incest is not natural, but it is as universal as a law of nature.
  3. 44:04He later drifts toward an anti-history and a deep ecology; he thinks only of societies without history.
Series · 3 Dec 2020Musicosophy 4. Sound ghettos
  1. 3:22Tends to study cultures like animal species scattered in space, without history.
  2. 11:58Tribute: the composer's talent lies in anticipating the meter expected by the listener.
  3. 13:35The Raw and the CookedHis tripartition of musicians of the code, the message, and myth.
Series · 2 May 2019Dominique Pagani ▷II Michel Foucault
  1. 2:31Tristes TropiquesInitiator of anthropology; the first sentence of Tristes Tropiques, typical of the dream of the lone White man among natives.
  2. 5:32One of the finest musical cultures in Paris, which does not prevent ideological blindness.
  3. 10:07Structural AnthropologyInitiator of the term structure with Structural Anthropology.
  4. 54:35The Raw and the CookedMusic taught him to listen to myths; he accepts being a Kantianism without transcendental subject and studies how myths think each other.
Talks · 8 Jun 2017Negritude and negrologists / Adotevi by Pagani (2017)
  1. 19:32The Bororo with whom he conversed did not ask themselves the question of their identity.
  2. 38:31After him one says anthropologist rather than ethnologist; he had the merit of recording oral narratives.
  3. 40:57Tristes TropiquesGreat musical culture, Le Cru et le Cuit his bedside book; but Tristes Tropiques expresses the white man's fantasy of wanting to be alone.
  4. 44:47His relation to the Bororo reflects an investment in a fantasized purity of the native.
Talks · 8 Aug 2015Mythology and Truth
  1. 28:39The Raw and the CookedIn the Mythologiques, he sees in music the key to myths and makes Wagner the father of the structural analysis of myths.
  2. 34:43He does not seek what men think in their myths, but how myths think themselves through men, and among themselves.
  3. 46:05His formula is taken up and applied to the poem of the people.
Series · 5 Jul 2018Being and Code
  1. 13:25Commented on by Derrida in "Structure, Sign and Play."
  2. 27:35The Raw and the CookedHe replaces ethnology with anthropology and calls himself a specialist in societies without history, a double play on words.
  3. 48:54He makes Wagner the father of the structural analysis of myths.
  4. 1:27:28Neo-kantian, like Althusser, through the rupture between the logical and the ontological.

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