Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture Levi-Strauss ClaudePaperback
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture Levi-Strauss ClaudePaperback Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the…
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Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture Levi-Strauss ClaudePaperback
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. In these five lectures originally prepared for Canadian radio, Claude L vi-Strauss offers, in brief summations, the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.The lectures begin with a discussion of the historical split between mythology and science and the evidence that mythic levels of understanding are being reintegrated in our approach to knowledge. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history.
The final two lectures outline the In an extension of this theme, Professor L vi-Strauss analyzes what we have called "primitive thinking" and discusses some universal features of human mythology.