I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but … - Claude Lévi-Strauss

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I never had, and still do not have, the perception of feeling my personal identity. I appear to myself as the place where something is going on, but there is no ‘I’, no ‘me.’ Each of us is a kind of crossroads where things happen. The crossroads is purely passive; something happens there. A different thing, equally valid, happens elsewhere. There is no choice, it is just a matter of chance.

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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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Alternative Names: Klod Levi-Stros Claude Levi-Strauss Claude Gustave Levi-Strauss Lévi-Strauss, Claude קלוד לוי-שטראוס
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From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up from the recesses of time: in the little streets of the beaters of silver and gold, for instance, there was a clear, unhurried tinkling, as if a djinn with a thousand arms was absent-mindedly practising on a xylophone.

"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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