Myth and Meaning

In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-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.

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Main Author Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto University of Toronto Press 1978
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing
Edition1
SeriesHeritage
Subjects
Addresses, essays, lectures
Anthropology
Civilization
Criticism
Cultural
DISCOUNT-C
Ethnophilosophy
Folklore & Mythology
HISTORY
History & Surveys
HISTORY / Civilization
HISTORY / Social History
Mythology
PHILOSOPHY
PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General
Philosphy, Primitive
Social History
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Sociology
Structural anthropology
DISCOUNT-C
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Abstract In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-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.
AbstractList In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-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.
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 the CBC, Claude Lévi-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. 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 his theme, Professosr Lévi-Strauss analyses what we have called 'primitive' thinking 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. Combining history, anthropology, and philosophy, this book provides a broad and penetrating perspective on the contemporary western world.
In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-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.
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Snippet In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime...
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...
In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime...
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Civilization
Criticism
Cultural
DISCOUNT-C
Ethnophilosophy
Folklore & Mythology
HISTORY
History & Surveys
HISTORY / Civilization
HISTORY / Social History
Mythology
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PHILOSOPHY / Criticism
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General
Philosphy, Primitive
Social History
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TableOfContents Front Matter The 1977 Massey Lectures Table of Contents An Introduction ONE: The Meeting of Myth and Science TWO: ‘Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind THREE: Harelips and Twins: FOUR: When Myth Becomes History FIVE: Myth and Music
The 1977 Massey Lectures Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright Cover Contents An Introduction 1. The Meeting of Myth and Science 2. 'Primitive' Thinking and the 'Civilized' Mind 3. Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth 4. When Myth Becomes History 5. Myth and Music
Cover -- Contents -- An Introduction -- 1 The Meeting of Myth and Science -- 2 'Primitive' Thinking and the 'Civilized' Mind -- 3 Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth -- 4 When Myth Becomes History -- 5 Myth and Music
Three. Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth --
Two. ‘Trimitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind --
Four. When Myth Becomes History --
Contents --
One. The Meeting of Myth and Science --
Frontmatter --
An Introduction --
The 1977 Massey Lectures --
Five. Myth and Music
Title Myth and Meaning
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