Abraham Rotstein, "Myth, Mind and Religion: The Apocalyptic Narrative"
English | ISBN: 1433122278 | 2018 | 184 pages | PDF | 1253 KB
English | ISBN: 1433122278 | 2018 | 184 pages | PDF | 1253 KB
The French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss scoured the Amazon forest for the myths of its primitive peoples. He found that a certain logic governed the construction of these myths―his mythologique; he regarded this logic as innate in the human mind and thus universal. Despite this claim of universality, Lévi-Strauss deliberately sidestepped the myths of the biblical religions as well as the myths of modern societies. This proved to be a missed opportunity since these myths lend themselves very well to his mode of analysis.
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