Jordan Peterson
Maps of Meaning
The Architecture of Belief
The myths and stories every culture tells aren’t naive science — they’re maps of how to act in a world we can never fully know. Meaning lives on the line between order and chaos, and the way through is to face what you most want to avoid.
Jordan Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist. Published in 1999 and built from years of lecturing at Harvard and the University of Toronto, this is his dense, academic first book — reading mythology, religious narrative, and totalitarian ideology through psychology to ask why humans tell the stories they tell, and what those stories are actually for.
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