Raw and cooked on the Internet: Claude Lévi-Strauss

Hot/cold, the Raw and the Cooked, the Fermented and the Verottete, honey and ash, the myth and science: Claude Lévi-Strauss, a disciple of the Russian formalists Roman Jakobson one of the most important scientists of the 20th century. In the analysis of myths, marriage rules and recipes tried Lévi-Strauss, an American named, the binary thinking of cybernetics fruitfully applied. Lévi-Strauss, now 100 years old will be tried in the declaration, as the human thinking of the "savages" as the "civilized" with an unlimited number of binary oppositions operates.To Lévi-Strauss formulated according to the interpretation of a Native American myth of the great war, in which humans, animals and animal people participated: "Even if the story is not true, scientifically speaking, it remains to note that we called the status of myth could only be understood Than in the scientific world, cybernetics and computers and it gave us their assistance was possible, binary operations to understand the mythical thinking earlier in a completely different way of concrete objects or living had made. " The Lévi-Strauss applied "structuralism" was developed by the science initially rejected because it is the human subject completely disassembled, "an unbearable spoiled child that is too long dominated the philosophical scene." Only in the seventies sat down by his science, but was also a fad.

With the documentary Claude Levi-Strauss, the self-portrait of ethnologists and a number of other films presents Arte +7 until 5 December video streams available to the workings of the great scholars begreifbar make itself as the "place to temporarily certain things happen" described - much like the video streams.