Myth and Meaning - Softcover
In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, here offers the insights of a lifetime on the crucial questions of human existence. Responding to questions as varied as 'Can there be meaning in chaos?', 'What can science learn from myth?' and 'What is structuralism?', Lévi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.
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'There is no easier or quicker way than through this book into that heart of darkness Levi-Strauss calls 'totalitarian ambition of the savage mind' as it throbs beneath the surface of the 'civilized' mind.'--Philip Rieff, Professor of Psychiatry, Medical College of Pennsylvania
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Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908- ). Anthropologist, who became the most prominent exponent of structuralism.
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- PublisherRoutledge & Kegan
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0710001045
- ISBN 13 9780710001047
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages64
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