Myth and Meaning

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415253949
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/17/2001
Series:	Routledge Classics
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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;