In any society, he maintained, “the purpose of a myth is to provide a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction.”
As he saw it, the human mind tends to organize thought and culture around binary opposites, and to try to resolve the resulting tension through the creative act of mythmaking. Here are four pairs that, explicitly or implicitly, are important in the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who died a little over a week ago just shy of 101.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies
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from jeffmacintyre.com: Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies http://bit.ly/5n6aLA
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