| Author Quoted | Claude Levi-Strauss |
| Title Quoted | Pensee sauvage |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1967/10/07 |
| Imprint | [S.l.] : [s.n.]. 1962 |
| Quotation | I am really most excited by the sophistication, versatility, scope, horizons of Levi-Strauss. In Le Cru et le cuit [The Raw and the Cooked] one tends to get snowed under by the sheer mass of material, concentrated in Brazil. But La Pensee sauvage [The Savage Mind] is more universal and gives a clearer exposition of his understanding of the epistemology and logic based on the idea of species. Real cosmic and "contemplativ" quality - aesthetic and scientific at the same time - yet with a sophistication that excludes romance and reminds us we are moderns, not neolithics - but that neolithic thought is more relevant than we think - more sophisticated and complex than some modern "scientific" common-sense categorizing. |
| Quotation Source | Learning to love: exploring solitude and freedom. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 6, 1966-1967.; Edited by Christine M. Bochen. / [San Francisco] : HarperCollins. 1997, p. 299 |
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