Claude Lévi-Strauss vs. Bertrand Russell
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Claude Lévi-Strauss
1908 – 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss 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.
"If we judge the achievements of other social groups in relation to the kind of objectives we set ourselves, we have at times to acknowledge their superiority; b…"
Bertrand Russell
1872 – 1970
British philosopher, logician, and social critic.
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
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