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Lévi-Strauss and Marxism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Bruno Karsenti
Bruno Karsenti*
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École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
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Bruno Karsenti, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 10, Rue Monsieur Le Prince, 75006, Paris, France. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper focuses on the political meaning of structuralism from the point of the view of the unusual link between Marxism and Buddhism established by Claude Lévi-Strauss in the final pages of Sad Tropics. Marxism appears here as a Western attempt to start a process of social transformation that is traditionally embedded in the core of Eastern cultures. Comparing these different worlds allows Lévi-Strauss to identify an internal yet unrecognized differentiation of Western culture, and provides a remarkable example of how the structural method applies to deep cultural analysis.

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Diogenes , Volume 60 , Issue 2: Homage to Claude Lévi-Strauss , May 2013 , pp. 67 - 78
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Copyright © ICPHS 2015

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