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The Prophet of Anthropology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Marino Niola*
Affiliation:
Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, Italy
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Marino Niola, Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, Via Suor Orsola, 10, 80125 Napoli, Italy. Email: moroniola@tin.it
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Abstract

No anthropologist has been as influential outside the own discipline as Lévi-Strauss. From philosophy to history, from politics to literary criticism, from linguistics to sociology, from psychoanalysis to poetry, from art to contemporary music, the œuvre of the author of Tristes Tropiques has fallen on these fields like a beneficial rain, giving them new life. Such a great influence has several reasons. The design of a wide-ranging anthropological project, its philosophical implications, an immense and precious erudition which allows to build connections between the most different fields of humanistic and scientific knowledge, and lastly a great writing, rich of literary vibrations. All the great questions of the present, from the world's overpopulation to cultural relativism, from the resurgence of the myth to the return of localisms, from the war of the veil to genetic manipulations, all subjects appear in the œuvre of Lévi-Strauss, always in a provocative and anticipatory formulation which represents the precious heritage of the last of the classics.

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