Claude Lévi-Strauss

Lévi-Strauss, based, at the same time, on the sociological and anthropological positivism of Durkheim, Mauss, Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, on the economic and sociological marxism, on freudian and Gestalt psychology and on structural linguistics of Saussure and Jakobson, realized great studies on areas myth, kinship, religion, ritual, simbolism, magic, ideology (souvage pensée), knowledge, art and aesthetics, appling the methodological structuralism on his investigations. He searched the universal principals of human thought as a form of explaining social behaviors and structures.