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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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'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.' - James Redfield

Table of Contents
Chapter 01 The Meeting of Myth and Science; Chapter 02 ‘Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind; Chapter 03 Harelips and Twins: the Splitting of a Myth; Chapter 04 When Myth Becomes History; Chapter 05 Myth and Music;

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Published 5/17/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780415255486
      978-0415255486
      ISBN-10 0415255481
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      Anthropology Western philosophy from c 1800

      Description

      Book 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.

      Trade Review
      '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.' - James Redfield

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 01 The Meeting of Myth and Science; Chapter 02 ‘Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind; Chapter 03 Harelips and Twins: the Splitting of a Myth; Chapter 04 When Myth Becomes History; Chapter 05 Myth and Music;

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