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Title: Man and the Sacred by Roger Caillois, Meyer Barash ISBN: 0-252-07034-8 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Roger Caillois is an amazing thinker
Comment: Huge disclaimer: I have not read this book, and I will surely revise this blurb when I have read it. I am a huge fan of Caillois, however, and it's great that these books are now available (I haven't read them because I couldn't find them!). I think Caillois will come to be known as an amazing thinker by English readers, sooner or later...hopefully sooner. His book "The Writing of Stones" is an almost comically profound meditation on nature and our role in it. He has the ability to make you feel yourself as infintesimal and gargantuan at the same instant, often with one brilliant turn of phrase. A truckload novelists and poets have spent, are spending, and will spend their lives attempting to create such feelings of awe with their words....
Well, I hope that one gets the reprint treatment too.
If it matters to you, Caillois was an associate of George Bataille and a fellow member of The College of Sociology in the 30s. His ideas are similar to those of Bataille, but Caillois comes from an anthropological and scientfic background, whereas Bataille was a medieaval librarian...enough said. I found Caillois after reading Cioran's great essay about him in his book "Anathemas and Admirations." I recommend reading that if I have not managed to muster your interest.
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Title: Man, Play and Games by Roger Caillois, Meyer Barash ISBN: 025207033X Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Sacrifice by Henri Hubert, Marcel Mauss, W. D. Halls ISBN: 0226356795 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: December, 1981 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Ambiguity of Play by Brian Sutton-Smith ISBN: 0674005813 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille, Mary Dalwood ISBN: 0872861902 Publisher: City Lights Books Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Sacred and Profane: The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade, Willard Trask ISBN: 015679201X Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1968 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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