Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new ef… - Claude Lévi-Strauss
" "Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.
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About Claude Lévi-Strauss
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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Klod Levi-Stros
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss
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Lévi-Strauss, Claude
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קלוד לוי-שטראוס
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I am not far from believing that, in our own societies, history has replaced mythology and fulfils the same function, that for societies without writing and without archives the aim of mythology is to ensure that as closely as possible—complete closeness is obviously impossible—the future will remain faithful to the present and to the past.
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"Var olduğundan beri, her zaman ve her yerde "fikrinin peşine düşmek" insanın en değişmez uğraşlarından biri olmuştur. Bu alıştırma insana bir tatmin sağlar, bir yarar bulur onda; bu arayışın nereye götüreceğini sormaz kendine.
Şu bir vaıkadır: Fantastik görünümlü fikirlerin; gerçek dünyanın uzun süre gizli kalmış hangi düzeyinin yansıması olduğunun keşfedilmesi yüzyıllar, hatta binyıllar alsa bile zihne ait güçlerin olanaklarının araştırılması daima bir yere varır - bilimsel düşüncenin, özellikle de matematiğin tarihi bunu ispatlar."
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