ISBN:
0822330563
,
0822330687
Language:
English
Pages:
423 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
DDC:
301.01
Keywords:
Sociology Philosophy
;
Religion and sociology
;
Tales Themes, motives
;
Rites and ceremonies
;
Caillois, Roger 1913-1978
;
Religionssoziologie
Abstract:
An essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Callois (1913-1978), this volume includes 32 essays with commentaries. It covers his political & theoretical works, & both famous & less well kown pieces
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-413) and index
,
Theory and the Thirties, 1934-1939 ; Surrealism and Its Environs ; Testimony (Paul Eluard) ; The Praying Mantis: From Biology to Psychoanalysis ; Letter to Andre Breton; Literature in Crisis ; Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia ; Biology and Myth ; Review of L'Homme, cet inconnu
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The Function of Myth ; The Noon Complex ; For a Militant Orthodoxy: The Immediate Tasks of Modern Thought ; Lucifer at the College of Sociology ; Interview with Gilles Lapouge, June 1970 ; First Lecture: Sacred Sociology and the Relationships among "Society," "Organism," and "Being" ; Dionysian Virtues ; Aggressiveness as a Value ; The Birth of Lucifer ; Paris, a Modern Myth ; Sociology of the Intellectual ; Writing from Patagonia, 1940-1945 ; After the College ; Preamble to the Spirit of Sects ; Discussions of Sociological Topics: On "Defense of the Republic" ; The Nature and Structure of Totalitarian Regimes ; Treasure and Culture ; Duties and Privileges of French Writers Abroad ; Patagonia ; The Myth of Secret Treasures in Childhood ; The Situation of Poetry ; Pythian Heritage (On the Nature of Poetic Inspiration) ; Postwar Stances, 1946-1978 ; The Moralist ; Loyola to the Rescue of Marx ; Paroxysms of Society ; Metamorphoses of Hell ; Signs and Images ; The Image ; Fruitful Ambiguity ; Surrealism as a World of Signs ; Diagonal Science ; The Great Bridgemaker ; A New Plea for Diagonal Science ; The Natural Fantastic.
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