Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English.

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The definitive account of the life, work, and legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss, father of modern anthropology and one of the postwar era's most influential thinkers.

When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away last October at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but also one of the defining intellectuals of the twentieth century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian discipline of psychiatry, so had Lévi-Strauss revolutionized anthropology, transforming it from the colonial era study of "exotic" tribes to one consumed with fundamental questions about the nature of humanity and civilization itself.

Remarkably, there has never been a biography in English of the enigmatic Claude Lévi-Strauss. Drawing on a welter of original research and interviews with the anthropologist, Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi-Strauss fills this void. In rich detail, Wilcken re-creates Lévi-Strauss's peripatetic life: his groundbreaking fieldwork in some of the remotest reaches of the Amazon in the 1930s; his years as a Jew in Nazi- occupied France and as an émigré in wartime New York; and his return to Paris in the late 1940s, where he clashed with Jean-Paul Sartre and fundamentally influenced fellow postwar thinkers from Jacques Lacan to Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. It was in France that structuralism, the school of thought he founded, first took hold, creating waves far beyond the field of anthropology. In his heyday, Lévi-Strauss was both a hero to contemporary intellectuals and an international celebrity.

In Claude Lévi-Strauss, Wilcken gives the reader a fascinating intellectual tour of the anthropologist's landmark works: Tristes Tropiques, a literary meditation on his travels and fieldwork; The Savage Mind, which showed that "primitive" people are driven by the same intellectual curiosities as their Western counterparts; and finally his monumental four-volume Mythologiques, a study of the universal structures of native mythology in the Americas. In the years that Lévi-Strauss published these pioneering works, Wilcken observes, tribal societies seemed to hold the answers to the most profound questions about the human mind. Following the great anthropologist from São Paulo to the Brazilian interior, and from New York to Paris, Patrick Wilcken's Claude Lévi- Strauss is both an evocative journey and an intellectual biography of one of the twentieth-century's most influential minds.

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Foreign protests against American policies and globalization are fairly common. Television news often shows a street scene with an unruly mob assaulting a McDonald's franchise (probably owned by locals). After all, McDonald's is a symbol of American capitalism and globalization. The delicious irony is that so many members of the mob wear Nike shoes and Levis, two other quintessential American icons. Even more incongruous is that the story of Levis does not begin in the States, but in a small town in Germany, where Löb Strauss was born. Now known as Levi Strauss, with a company bearing his name, the German immigrant's story is one of great success brought about by hard work, determination, and a family's unstinting support and devotion for one another. Award-winning author Daniel Alef tells the story of Levi's journey to California's gold fields and the development of the iconic jeans with riveted pockets worn today by people all over the world. [1,532-word Titans of Fortune article]

Wild West chaos and creative problem solving are the force behind a well-loved American institution.

A wide-ranging collection of essays which discuss ancient societies, and our interpretation of historical artefacts and documents in relation to historical viewpoints.

Highly acclaimed on its first publication, this book is now available as a free Kindle download.
This clear and authoritative study provides a critical evaluation of the structuralist move¬ment, concentrating on its roots in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. The discus¬sion of Levi-Strauss's work as a whole places his anthropological theories in their philosophical framework, and compares his theory and philosophy with contemporary developments in anthropology, linguistics and philosophy.
Looking at the connection between structuralism and phenomenology and neo-positivism, the book assesses the relation between Levi-Strauss's work and that of Lacan, Foucault, Althusser and Sartre.
First published in 1982 by Harvester (UK) and Barnes & Noble (US).

Highly acclaimed on its first publication, this book is now available as a free Kindle download.
This clear and authoritative study provides a critical evaluation of the structuralist move¬ment, concentrating on its roots in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. The discus¬sion of Levi-Strauss's work as a whole places his anthropological theories in their philosophical framework, and compares his theory and philosophy with contemporary developments in anthropology, linguistics and philosophy.
Looking at the connection between structuralism and phenomenology and neo-positivism, the book assesses the relation between Levi-Strauss's work and that of Lacan, Foucault, Althusser and Sartre.
First published in 1982 by Harvester (UK) and Barnes & Noble (US).

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In graphic novel format, tells the story of Levi Strauss and the evolution of blue jeans.

When Bavarian immigrant Levi Strauss opened his wholesale dry goods warehouse on the San Francisco waterfront in 1853, he likely had no inkling that his business would become one of the world's largest clothing companies. Levi Strauss & Co. started with imported clothing, bedding, and notions to supply the many small stores serving the Gold Rush and the expanding American West. By 1873, he and partner Jacob Davis invented the very first blue jeans, which were soon worn by working men from Los Angeles to Laramie. Strauss parlayed his business acumen into social progress by giving back to his community and embedding a company culture committed to positively impacting society. In this spirit, the Levi Strauss Foundation was created after World War II, formalizing the philanthropic work started by Strauss himself a century earlier. All the while, the company has evolved with successive generations of family owners, expanding product lines to meet the ever-changing needs of consumers around the world.

Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, Markos Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's famous 'return to Freud' was only made possible through Lacan's reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of the psychoanalyst and that of the anthropologist, Zafiropoulos shows how Lacan's theories of the symbolic function, of the power of language, of the role of the father and even of the unconscious itself owe a major debt to Levi-Strauss.

Lacan and Levi-Strauss is much more than an academic study of the relations between these two thinkers: it is also a superb introduction to the work of Lacan, setting out with detail and lucidity the major concepts of his work in the 1950s.