Shopgirl's metaphysics
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"Cette promotion des préoccupations personnelles à la dignité de problèmes philosophiques risque trop d'aboutir à une sorte de métaphysique pour midinette." English: "To promote private preoccupations to the rank of philosophical problems is dangerous, and may end in a kind of shopgirl's philosophy." --Tristes Tropiques (1955) by Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Shopgirl's metaphysics (French: métaphysique pour midinette) is a term used by Claude Lévi-Strauss in Tristes Tropiques (1955) to denote phenomenology and existentialism.
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