Mapas de sentidos

The fruit of many years of reflection and work, Jordan B. Peterson laid the theoretical foundations for his ideas in these Maps. An ambitious, risky and highly personal essay that, in the manner of classical thinkers, tackles basic questions of human experience with an unprejudiced originality. Why have people of different cultures and times formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about mind, morals, and the configuration of the world? In this memorable book, the author answers the pressing question of why we are capable of evil (even in its most egregious social versions like Auschwitz and the Gulag), but, unlike most psychologists and philosophers, he does so by getting more in the place of the potential executioner than in that of the victim. A disturbing and dizzying idea. This leads him to the cyclopean task of describing "the architecture of belief", the creation of meanings, starting from a renewed use of language and classical concepts -chaos, order, fear, hero, logos...-, and relying on in a wide list of thinkers and works who have reflected on the role of mythology and the sense of morality, especially Carl G. Jung, but also Nietzsche, Wittgenstein or the Bible.