Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
of Claude LĂ©vi-Strauss
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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. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared for Canadian radio, Claude LĂ©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. In an extension of this theme, Professor LĂ©vi-Strauss analyzes what we have called âprimitive thinkingâ and discusses some universal features of human mythology. The final two lectures outline the functional relationship between mythology and history and the structural relationship between mythology and music.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 80 pages
- Publisher Schocken
- Publication Date March 14th 1995
- First Publication 11/05/78
- Language English
- ISBN 9780805210385
- Edition Not informed
- Category Arts & Culture
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