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Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (Paperback)

by Jordan Peterson (Author) "The world can be validly construed as forum for action, or as place of things ..." (more)

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Paperback: 567 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Mar 24 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415922224
ISBN-13: 978-0415922227
Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 1 Kg

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Amazon.ca Sales Rank: #8,779 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The book reflects its authors profound moral sense and vast erudition in areas ranging from clinical psychology to scripture and a good deal of personal soul-searching and experience...with patients who include prisoners, alcoholics and the mentally ill.
–Montreal Gazette

This is not a book to be abstracted and summarized. Rather it should be read at leisure...and employed as a stimulus and reference to expand ones own maps of meaning. I plan to return to Petersons musings and mapping many times over the next few years.
–Am J Psychiatry

...a brilliant enlargement of our understanding of human motivation...a beautiful work.
–Sheldon H. White, Harvard University

...unique...a brilliant new synthesis of the meaning of mythologies and our human need to relate in story form the deep structure of our experiences.
–Keith Oatley, University of Toronto

Craig Lambert, Harvard Magazine, September-October 1998

... a sweeping theory of narrative, belief, meaning and religion... the book's bibliography ranges through existentialist philosophers and literary critics, as well as Dante, Dostoevsky, Goethe, Stephen Hawking, C.G. Jung, Lao Tzu, Konrad Lorenz, brain scientist A.R. Luria, Milton, Nietzsche, Piaget, Solzhenitsyn, Voltaire and Wittgenstein... a grand, sprawling, ambitious undertaking, an intellectual adventure that aims to synthesize disparate knowledge in the classic, old-fashioned tradition of social science.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging and prolific., Jun 29 1999

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In these days where the academic reinforcement schedule is such that reward comes from knowing more and more about less and less, it is wonderful to see someone tackle the big problems in a grand theory - and Jordan Peterson does address some big problems. He aims his analytical lens at the motivational and behavioral dynamics behind evil and meaning. These issues seem to be most often addressed by theogians whose presuppositions are difficult for a rational person to digest whole, or by New Age fuzzy thinkers. This book is most definitely not New Age (Joe Campbellites beware - meaning is not simple bliss!) in its hard look at what mythic narrative, as a phenomenon devoted to motivation and behavior, is about and what it can tell us today.

I found the book taught me lessons in the neuropsychology of emotion, moral philosophy, and the deep structure of mythic narrative - and weaved these disparate fields into a coherent, powerful tool of interpretation (which is what a good theory should be). Undoubtedly there are weaknesses in Jordan's understanding of each of these individual fields, but his synthesis is pretty interesting, at worst, and profound, at best. This is a challenging read, both in the scope and difficulty of the material and in the way your thinking about your self and the world is challenged. For those with a good attention span and a synthetic curiosity about the world, I would recommend this book highly.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Book, Jun 24 2004

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I'm in agreement with previous reviewers. This is an outstanding book and should be higher on Amazon's Sales Rank. The only problem is the writing style. Professor Peterson can write simple, clear prose, as shown at the beginning when describing his personal history. But the academic style in the rest of the book is harder to wade through. He constantly restates and rephrases his ideas, often in the same sentence. This academic prose is readable, but he should have stuck with the simpler style. You can say just as much that way, but to more readers.

Also, some of the "insights" of neuropsychology are merely common sense. Do we really need Russian psychologists to tell us that we pay less attention to startling or threatening stimuli after they prove inoffensive?

This book will appeal to NT types, in Meyers-Briggs parlance. It presents the big picture of human culture and behavior, but in analytic detail. Boy, does it present the big picture! Only cosmological theories get bigger than this. It is the kind of book than can change your world view. It did mine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars If you are only going to read 1 book in your life..., Mar 10 2002

By	Steven E. Romer "Author -- The Textbook of th... (Woodstock) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

this is THE book to read! This puts into perspective any of the other books you might read, including religious books like the Bible! This book unlocks the symbolism used in profound writings of history. Talks about the deep symbolism of the deepest human aspirations--unlocks what has been hidden under these murky symbols. Jordan shows us the true nature of the heroic impulses for the individual and for mankind in general, and the failure and fear of the heroic that causes both individual and social atrocities. I cannot say enough about his genius for elucidating these things--gives me new hope for the world. I accidentally met the man at a conference on consciousness, and it was like I met a long lost brother--before I read his book! This is because he has tapped into a great ocean of truth underlying our most cherished symbols. If you are a truth-seeker--whether in science or about yourself and your soul--this is the book you have been looking for. These ideas are a large part of the keys to eliminating the most greivous ills of humanity. One of my top 10 books of all time, if not #1.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating read
I am also a former student of Professor Peterson's, taught on the manuscript of this book, and it made such an impression on me that here I am, tracking it down three years later... Read more

Published on Mar 19 2001 by Joseph Deal

5.0 out of 5 stars Forever a Student of Prof. Peterson
I had the opportunity to read his original manuscript when I was a student at Harvard. His class, text, and brilliant insights into the human condition truly expanded,... Read more

Published on Jul 12 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars pure genius
I took Prof. Peterson's personality psychology class at Harvard, which incorporated many of the themes he explores in his book. Read more

Published on Jan 7 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant exploration
One of the most influential books I've ever read, Maps of Meaning takes an unflinching look at what truly drives human behavior, and human choices. Read more

Published on Oct 11 1999