If this represents a basic need for order in the human mind… - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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If this represents a basic need for order in the human mind and since, after all, the human mind is only part of the universe, the need probably exists because there is some order in the universe and the universe is not a chaos.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

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Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 - 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

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Alternative Names: Klod Levi-Stros • Claude Levi-Strauss • Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss • Lévi-Strauss, Claude • קלוד לוי-שטראוס

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