Posts Tagged ‘Claude Levi-Strauss’

Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture

November 5th, 2009

“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

In Myth and Meaning one of the twentieth century’s most prominent thinkers, Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died Friday, a month short of his 101st birthday, 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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