Levi-Strauss Dies

[Incongruous]

One of the greatest thinkers of our time has finally kicked it...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-aged-100.html

I didn't know where to post this, but considering his views have cause loud debates before I thought it would be only fitting for the denizens of the Backroom to publicly lament his passing.

I suppose we should, along with wishing him to rest in peace, perhaps have a discussion about his fascinating studies and beliefs.

I'll post a wiki summary of the great man.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss

[Major Robert Dump]

I really liked his comfort fit jeans design even though they were always a little cozy in my crotch area.

[Azathoth]

Interesting how the one Levi Strauss died just before the other was born.

[Sarmatian]

Interesting how the one Levi Strauss died just before the other was born.

That's how reincarnation works.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

He really did have a good idea or three, and ended up spurring others towards more.

[Louis VI the Fat]

They're all gone.

All the great philosophers, the entire panthéon of twentienth century philospohy. Each one to Paris an Invalides, a Madeleine, an Opéra. Whom shall now take over the torch and illuminate the world?

*weeps uncontrollably *


It's odd to think that he was made an immortal by the Académie back in the early seventies, at the end of his career, and then he lived on to see an entire generation of followers, sometimes born after that, grow up to be become famous themselves.