Claude Lévi-Strauss

From Montaigne to Montaigne collects two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist's intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne. In January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confédération Générale du Travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale...