According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste.

A collection of newly translated writings by the French sociologist and surrealist. "Roger Caillois has remained relatively unknown in the English-speaking world.

Table of Contents Translator's Introduction 7 Preface to the Second Edition 11 Introduction 13 Ch. I General Interrelationships of the Sacred and the Profane 19 Ch. II The Ambiguity of the Sacred 33 Ch. III The Sacred as Respect: Theory of ...

- Never-before-seen photographs of Roger Caillois' collection of semiprecious stones - The volume combines Art, Nature, and Literature - Deluxe edition for bibliophiles, silk binding Even though they belong to the Mineral Kingdom, the ...

Unlike The Writing of Stones, which featured images from Caillois' own rock collection, this text pairs a complete English translation by French writer and curator, Valentine Umansky, with the haunting imagery from, writer and designer, ...

Roger Caillois, 1913-1978, philosopher, writer, and Académie française laureate, was the author of numerous works of anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, art, and literary criticism, and the cofounder, with Georges Bataille, of France ...

... Caillois becomes a kind of Zeno . As schoolboys both are characterized " par la curiosité , l'audace , la révolte d'un esprit qui [ ... ] n'aime pas ne pas comprendre [ ... ] " ; one like the other is " bien décidé à pousser le plus ...

... Caillois also under- stood the problematic of psychaesthenia as involving more than the visual register — a fact that many of his subsequent interpreters have overlooked . In the same article , Caillois cites the work of psychologist ...