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[frenchdoctor]

Well, the title says it all. Claude Lévi-Strauss died last week, at age 100.

[spectacle]

I was just about to post this.

It feels like the true end of an era.

[systeme_d_]

http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2009/11/03/l-ethnologue-claude-levi-strauss-est-mort_1262351_3382.html#ens_id=1262333

I started to paste in the entire obituary from Le Monde, but then I remembered that posting without a translation is frowned upon here.

So here is the link instead.

Au revoir, Claude Lévi-Strauss.

[oldfullprof]

But the Sassurian reification of language lives on. 

[embitteredhistorian]

Such a great thinker--he will be sorely missed.

[dellaroux]

http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2009/11/03/l-ethnologue-claude-levi-strauss-est-mort_1262351_3382.html#ens_id=1262333

I started to paste in the entire obituary from Le Monde, but then I remembered that posting without a translation is frowned upon here.

So here is the link instead.

Au revoir, Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Writing obituaries as a laudatory form of literature, more recent in anglophone countries, works so well here.

I was taken by the extended use of the melodic metaphor for his approach to his work and to life.

Thanks for the posting.