Myth and Meaning by Claude Lvi-Strauss - 9780802063489

Name: Myth and Meaning by Claude Lvi-Strauss - 9780802063489
Brand: University of Toronto Press

University of Toronto Press

Myth and MeaningAuthor(s): Claude Lvi-Strauss\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802063489, 978-0802063489\nSynopsis\nEver 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 the CBC, Claude Lvi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.\n\nThe 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 his theme, Professosr Lvi-Strauss analyses what we have called 'prim.