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 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. 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 Levi-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.
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