Myth and Meaning (Routledge Classics) - Hardcover

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415255481 ISBN 13: 9780415255486

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

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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Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908- ). Anthropologist, who became the most prominent exponent of structuralism.

From the Back Cover

'Some thinkers are influential, a few create schools, a very few characterize a period ... it is possible that just as we speak of the age of Aquinas or of Goethe, later ages will speak of our time as the age of Levi-Strauss ... he is a maker of the modern mind.' - Professor James Redfield, University of Chicago

In addresses written for a wide general audience, one of the twentieth century's most prominent thinkers, Claude Livi-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?', Livi-Strauss presents, in clear, precise language, essential guidance for those who want to learn more about the potential of the human mind.

Claude Livi-Strauss (1908- ). Anthropologist, who became the most prominent exponent of structuralism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415255481
• ISBN 13: 9780415255486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64