Lévi-Strauss dismissed existentialism as mere shop-girl metaphysics.

Evidence

45 ‘Shop-girl metaphysics’ (‘une sorte de métaphysique pour midinette’): Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, tr. J. & D. Weightman (London: Penguin, 1978), 71, and in French, Tristes Tropiques (Paris: Plon, 1955), 63. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1163

Categorization

• QUESTION: Could prompt a real look into why structuralism and existentialism clashed so hard in postwar France — a rivalry the main text likely develops.