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“Lévi-Strauss sees man with a Lucretian pessimism, and a Lucretian feeling for knowledge…
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“Lévi-Strauss sees man with a Lucretian pessimism, and a Lucretian feeling for knowledge as both consolation and necessary disenchantment. But for him the demon is history — not the body or the appetites. The past, with its mysteriously harmonious structures, is broken and crumbling before our eyes.”

— Susan Sontag, “The Anthropologist As Hero”

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