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LEVI-STRAUSS_VS_SARTRE

                                             December 9, 2021

  Kawame Anthony Appiah,
  from "The Key to All Myths",           LEVI-STRAUSS
  on Claude Lévi-Strauss:


In the final chapter of Lévi-Strauss's 1962 work,
Lévi-Strauss attacked Sartre.

  "Sartre's approach, he said, naively privileged
   history-- 'in Sartre's system, history plays
   exactly the part of a myth'-- and was deeply
   ethnocentric, wedded to a misguided contrast
   between modern and primitive modes of thought,
   and confined to a laughably parochial range
   of phenomena.  Many readers found this attack
   on Sartre liberating: they saw structuralism
   overtaking existentialism and Marxism as a
   master discourse, chrome-clad precision
   surmounting Sartre's smoggy subjectivism."








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