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.

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

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;