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Claude Lévi-Strauss1908–2009

Claude Lévi-Strauss on philosophy

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 38: A Little Glass of Rum, p. 392

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