Claude Lévi-Strauss vs. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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.
"A day will come when the idea that for the sake of food the people of the past raised and massacred living beings and with complete equanimity displayed their f…"
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770 – 1831
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and a major figure in the tradition of German idealism. His influence on Western philosophy extends across a wide range of topics—from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy, to the philosophy of art and religion.
"This is Bruno's fundamental idea. He says: ”To recognize this unity of form and matter in all things, is what reason is striving to attain to. But in order to p…"
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