Claude Lévi-Strauss : a journey through the century

From Claude Lévi-Strauss's first publication in 1926 to his most recent in 2008, his work has profoundly marked the long ^20th century. Traces of this influence can of course be found in anthropology, a discipline that Lévi-Strauss refounded in France after the war and whose course he set in new directions everywhere else, but also in a much wider field ranging from aesthetics to the philosophy of knowledge, and including reflections on racism, language and the responsibility of humans towards non-humans. These are just some of the areas the colloquium aims to explore, thanks to some of those on whom Lévi-Strauss's influence has been exerted at various times over the last five decades. It is also a way of taking stock, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, of what the great anthropologist has contributed to the emergence of new thinking.