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The Edge of Surrealism
A Roger Caillois Reader
Taschenbuch von Roger Caillois
Sprache: Englisch

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"Roger Caillois has remained relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This superb selection of his essays, expertly translated, shows the full range of his thought and should place him next to Bataille and the Surrealists as a major intellectual figure in interwar and postwar France. Claudine Frank's general introduction and detailed commentaries on individual essays provide the necessary contexts for understanding this complex, often paradoxical thinker. A first-rate work that is sure to be of interest to all students of 20th-century French thought."--Susan Rubin Suleiman, author of" Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature"
"Roger Caillois has remained relatively unknown in the English-speaking world. This superb selection of his essays, expertly translated, shows the full range of his thought and should place him next to Bataille and the Surrealists as a major intellectual figure in interwar and postwar France. Claudine Frank's general introduction and detailed commentaries on individual essays provide the necessary contexts for understanding this complex, often paradoxical thinker. A first-rate work that is sure to be of interest to all students of 20th-century French thought."--Susan Rubin Suleiman, author of" Risking Who One Is: Encounters with Contemporary Art and Literature"
Über den Autor
Roger Caillois, Edited by Claudine Frank
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. Theory and the Thirties, 1934—1939
Surrealism and Its Environs

1. Testimony (Paul Eluard) 59

2. The Praying Mantis: From Biology to Psychoanalysis 66

3. Letter to Andre Breton; Literature in Crisis 82

4. Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia 89
Biology and Myth

5. Review of L'Homme, cet inconnu, by Dr. Alexis Carrel 107

6. The Function of Myth 110

7. The Noon Complex 124

8. For a Militant Orthodoxy: The Immediate Tasks of Modern Thought 130
Lucifer at the College of Sociology

9. Interview with Gilles Lapouge, June 1970 141

10. First Lecture: Sacred Sociology and the Relationships among “Society,” “Organism,” and “Being” 147

11. Dionysian Virtues 155

12. Aggressiveness as a Value 160

13. The Birth of Lucifer 166

14. Paris, a Modern Myth 173

15. Sociology of the Intellectual 190

II. Writing from Patagonia, 1940–1945
After the College

16. Preamble to the Spirit of Sects 205

17. Discussions of Sociological Topics: On “Defense of the Republic” 213

18. The Nature and Structure of Totalitarian Regimes 217
Treasure and Culture

19. Duties and Privileges of French Writers Abroad 235

20. Patagonia 240

21. The Myth of Secret Treasures in Childhood 252

22. The Situation of Poetry 262

23. Pythian Heritage (On the Nature of Poetic Inspiration) 268

III. Postwar Stances, 1946–1978
The Moralists

24. Loyola to the Rescue of Marx 279

25. Paroxysms of Society 284

26. Metamorphoses of Hell 298
Signs and Images

27. The Image 315

28. Fruitful Ambiguity 320

29. Surrealism as a World of Signs 326
Diagonal Science

30 The Great Bridgemaker 337

31. A New Plea for Diagonal Science 343

32. The Natural Fantastic 348

Roger Caillois Timeline 359

Notes 363

Bibliography 401

Index 415
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822330684
ISBN-10: 0822330687
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Caillois, Roger
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 163 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Roger Caillois
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2003
Gewicht: 0,68 kg
Artikel-ID: 102577280
Über den Autor
Roger Caillois, Edited by Claudine Frank
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

I. Theory and the Thirties, 1934—1939
Surrealism and Its Environs

1. Testimony (Paul Eluard) 59

2. The Praying Mantis: From Biology to Psychoanalysis 66

3. Letter to Andre Breton; Literature in Crisis 82

4. Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia 89
Biology and Myth

5. Review of L'Homme, cet inconnu, by Dr. Alexis Carrel 107

6. The Function of Myth 110

7. The Noon Complex 124

8. For a Militant Orthodoxy: The Immediate Tasks of Modern Thought 130
Lucifer at the College of Sociology

9. Interview with Gilles Lapouge, June 1970 141

10. First Lecture: Sacred Sociology and the Relationships among “Society,” “Organism,” and “Being” 147

11. Dionysian Virtues 155

12. Aggressiveness as a Value 160

13. The Birth of Lucifer 166

14. Paris, a Modern Myth 173

15. Sociology of the Intellectual 190

II. Writing from Patagonia, 1940–1945
After the College

16. Preamble to the Spirit of Sects 205

17. Discussions of Sociological Topics: On “Defense of the Republic” 213

18. The Nature and Structure of Totalitarian Regimes 217
Treasure and Culture

19. Duties and Privileges of French Writers Abroad 235

20. Patagonia 240

21. The Myth of Secret Treasures in Childhood 252

22. The Situation of Poetry 262

23. Pythian Heritage (On the Nature of Poetic Inspiration) 268

III. Postwar Stances, 1946–1978
The Moralists

24. Loyola to the Rescue of Marx 279

25. Paroxysms of Society 284

26. Metamorphoses of Hell 298
Signs and Images

27. The Image 315

28. Fruitful Ambiguity 320

29. Surrealism as a World of Signs 326
Diagonal Science

30 The Great Bridgemaker 337

31. A New Plea for Diagonal Science 343

32. The Natural Fantastic 348

Roger Caillois Timeline 359

Notes 363

Bibliography 401

Index 415
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822330684
ISBN-10: 0822330687
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Caillois, Roger
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 163 x 29 mm
Von/Mit: Roger Caillois
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.07.2003
Gewicht: 0,68 kg
Artikel-ID: 102577280
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