Jean-Marie Benoist was born in France in 1942. He was a French anthropologist, philosopher and writer. He was "one of the French new-philosophers of the sixties." For a a time, Benoist was closely associated with Claude Levi-Strauss as an assistant at the College de France, Paris. Benoist also organized seminars for Levi-Strauss.
Benoist was a very successful cultural attaché at the French Embassy in London for many years. This was at a time when Parisian intellectual life was at it's peak. Benoist was also involved with the anti-Marxist 'nouveaux philosophers' of Paris. He later became a political journalist in the camp of Jacques Chirac.
Benoist wrote several books, including; “Tyrannie du Logos”, “Les Outils de la Liberte”, “Pavane pour une Europe Defunte”, and “The Structural Revolution”. Benoist was interested in social anthropology and in structuralism and structural analysis. He published several essays on Levi-Strauss. Jean-Marie Benoist died in 1990.
Some of his other publications:
Marx est mort (1970)
La revolution structurale (1975)
References:
Current Anthropology. Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sept. 1977), pp. 575-577.
Written By: Anthropology
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