L'imaginé, l'imaginaire et le symbolique
Maurice Godelier

The Imagined, the Imaginary and the Symbolic

Lévi-Strauss held that “the real, the symbolic and the imaginary” are three separate orders. Maurice Godelier demonstrates the contrary: the real is not separate from the symbolic and the imaginary. Godelier’s book goes to the strategic heart of the social sciences, for to examine the nature and role of the imaginary and the symbolic is also to attempt to account for the basic components of all societies and ultimately of human existence. And these aspects in turn shape our social and personal identity.

  • Maurice Godelier

    A world-renowned anthropologist, CNRS gold medalist, and winner of the Alexander von Humboldt International Prize in Social Sciences, Maurice Godelier is the author, among other classics, of La Production des Grands Hommes (1982), Les Métamorphoses de la parenté (2004), and L'Interdit de l'inceste (2021).

  • ISBN: 9782271080820
  • Pages: 286
  • Publication date: 12/11/2015
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Translated in
  • Arabic
  • English
  • Turkish

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