Roger Caillois
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 109391 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Roger Caillois |
| PRENOMES | Roger |
| SOBRENOME | Caillois |
| ASSINATURA | CAILLOIS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNESCO |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 246 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1936 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The Dream and Human Societies
Formen des Ganzen
Vielfältige (Be-)Deutungen und vielgestaltige, komplexe Formen. Das »Ganze« könnte kaum diverser sein - und damit von größter Aktualität. Die politischen Krisen der Gegenwart (Klimawandel, Migration, Pandemie) verlangen nach globalen und ganzheitlichen Lösungen, während Ganzheit aufgrund der Totalitarismuserfahrungen des 20. Jahrhunderts zugleich eine in Verruf geratene Kategorie ist. Dieser Spannung haben sich die Geisteswissenschaften seit eini…
The Masked Writer
The Sacred Conspiracy
Extracts from Pierres réfléchies
Extracts from Pierres réfléchies Roger Caillois (bio) Translated by Charles A. La Via SubStance is pleased to present, for the first time in English, the Prologue and Epilogue from Roger Caillois's Pierres réfléchies. Pierres réfléchies is the last, and least cited, of Caillois's singular writings on stones, which are being rediscovered and reread in the contemporary geologic-philosophical-aesthetic context. Here, Caillois provides a final articu…
Les jeux et les hommes
L'homme et le sacré
Playful Identities
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
Révélations sur l'hitlérisme
Extracts from Stones
I speak of stones that have always lain out in the open or sleep in their lair and the dark night of the seam. They hold no interest for the archaeologist, artist or diamond-cutter. No one made palaces, statues, jewels from them; or dams, ramparts, tombs. They are neither useful nor famous. They do not sparkle in any ring, any diadem. They do not publicize lists of victories, laws of Empire, carved in ineffable characters. Neither boundaries nor …
Pierres
Do the Americas have a Common History?1
2000). Do the Americas have a Common History?1. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 357-365
Quelques lettres à propos du relativisme culturel. Roger Caillois, Jean Paulhan et René de Solier
Massonet Stéphane, Caillois Roger, Paulhan Jean, Solier René de. Quelques lettres à propos du relativisme culturel. Roger Caillois, Jean Paulhan et René de Solier. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°19, 1996. Dossier : Naître en marge. pp. 96-114
Metabolic abnormalities among free‐ranging Macaca mulatta on Cayo Santiago
Free‐ranging rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta ) were examined on the island of Cayo Santiago (CS), Puerto Rico, with intravenous glucose tolerance tests (IV‐GTTs). Results were compared to monkeys derived from the island, but subsequently housed in corrals or gang cages at Sabana Seca (SS). Glucose clearance was similar among CS and SS macaques (range 2.99 to 4.50%min); both CS and SS males had significantly greater fasting serum glucose levels (…
The Mystery Novel
Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia
From whatever side one approaches things, the ultimate problem turns out in the final analysis to be that of distinction: distinctions between the real and the imaginary, between waking and sleeping, between ignorance and knowledge, etc. all of them, in short, distinctions in which valid consideration must demonstrate a keen awareness and the demand for resolution. Among distinctions, there is assuredly none more clear-cut than that between the o…
The Myth of the Unicorn
We are pleased to offer our readers an unpublished article by Roger Caillois, a posthumous text which takes its place alongside his other studies on the myth and the imaginary. The octopus, the praying mantis and the fulgora in the real world led Roger Caillois to reflections similar to those which he exposes here relative to the narwhal and the imaginary unicorn. The importance of the unicorn in the author's work comes from the relationship esta…
Concerning Poetry-a Resumé
It goes without saying that my intention is not to remind the reader that poetry exists. Everyone knows it. Instead, I propose to show that it is possible, from which it follows that it is. inevitable and that, being inevitable, it is justified. It is not. enough that a thing exist for it to be legitimate: it could be merely apparent, accidental or insignificant; it. could conceal some trick or have only a temporary justification. Even more, the …
The Stone Men of the Canadian Arctic
To the memory of the ephemeral goddess Sedna, whose huge body reached out across the depths of the Arctic seas, whose hair was forever matted, full of ordure, clogged with bear furs and the snouts of narwhales, and could be combed only by a shaman on one of his cosmic journeyes.The inukshuk are piles of rough stone, shaped like men, and found on the coasts of the Canadian Arctic. I am well aware that they have never found a place in the history o…
The College de Sociologie
Science Fiction
In an earlier study, De la féerie à la science-fiction, I tried to show the internal consistency and the chronological succession of fairy tales, fantastic stories and works of scientific anticipation or extrapolation. They represent three styles of the imaginary, and illustrate, each in its own way ("like hollow molds," I said), the chief epochs of man's changing situation on his planet, as he himself saw it, more or less naively, in each case. …
Metamorphoses of Hell
Learned and voluminous works, of course, have brought together and compared the representations men have fashioned for themselves of the Beyond-in other words, of the kind of life in store for them after death. Sometimes the authors of such compilations have tried to classify these imaginary worlds and discover by what secret laws the after-universes where the dead live were designed, and in what spaces, both near and irremediably separate, they …
African Literature in the Age of Criticism
Dynamics of Dissymmetry
It is not impossible, it is almost inevitable, to conjecture the existence of laws so general that their jurisdiction would be affected neither by the nature nor the scale nor the level of their object-so that they would apply equally to the relations of numbers or of inert or organic matter, to the progression of rigorous thought or the flights of an amused or charmed fancy. If such laws did not govern the whole extent of the real, possible or c…
The Logic of Imagination
It is often difficult to distinguish between the animals of fable and those of zoology. The sphinx, the chimera, the centaur and the hippogriff belong, and always have belonged to the first category. But animals such as the unicorn have long been catalogued and described in works of natural science. In the seventeenth century, a catalogue such as John Johnston's A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, written in Latin, translated into …
Man, Play and Games
Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia
From whatever side one approaches things, the ultimate problem turns out in the final analysis to be that of distinction: distinctions between the real and the imaginary, between waking and sleeping, between ignorance and knowledge, etc. all of them, in short, distinctions in which valid consideration must demonstrate a keen awareness and the demand for resolution. Among distinctions, there is assuredly none more clear-cut than that between the o…
The Dream and Human Societies
Playful Identities
In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital car…
Excavations at Snaketown
The Structure and Classification of Games
In 1933, the rector of the University of Leyden, J. Huizinga, chose as the theme of his solemn speech, "the boundaries of play and of work in culture." He was to take this subject up again and to develop it in a powerful and original work published in 1938, Homo ludens. Most of the statements in this book are debatable. Nonetheless, it opens the way to extremely fertile research and reflection. It is to Huizinga's lasting credit that he masterful…
Do the Americas have a Common History?1
2000). Do the Americas have a Common History?1. Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 357-365
Unity of Play
So varied and complex is the world of games that there are many ways in which a study of it can be approached. Psychology, sociology, anecdotal history, pedagogy, and mathematics all share a domain whose unity ends by ceasing any longer to be perceptible. Works like Homo ludens by Huizinga, Jeu de l'enfant by Jean Chateau, and Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern are not addressed to the same readers, nor do …
Les spectres de midi dans la démonologie slave
Caillois Roger. Les spectres de midi dans la demonologie slave : les faits. In: Revue des etudes slaves, tome 16, fascicule 1-2, 1936. pp. 18-37
Les spectres de midi dans la démonologie slave
Caillois Roger. Les spectres de midi dans la demonologie slave : interpretation des faits. In: Revue des etudes slaves, tome 17, fascicule 1-2, 1937. pp. 81-92
Le mythe et l'homme
188 pages ; 18 cm
Ensayo sobre el espíritu de las sectas
Economie quotidienne et jeux de hasard en Amérique ibérique
Les études ou théories économiques modernes sont profondément influencées par ce même capitalisme qu'elles étudient de préférence. Le plus souvent, cette influence s'exerce sans que les auteurs y prennent garde. C'est d'abord qu'examinant presque exclusivement le capitalisme, ils conçoivent moins aisément un autre système de production, de circulation et de consommation des richesses. Surtout, ces études relèvent du même monde dont le capitalisme…
Diogenes and Neo-Humanism
The Structure and Classification of Games
In 1933, the rector of the University of Leyden, J. Huizinga, chose as the theme of his solemn speech, "the boundaries of play and of work in culture." He was to take this subject up again and to develop it in a powerful and original work published in 1938, Homo ludens. Most of the statements in this book are debatable. Nonetheless, it opens the way to extremely fertile research and reflection. It is to Huizinga's lasting credit that he masterful…
Unity of Play
So varied and complex is the world of games that there are many ways in which a study of it can be approached. Psychology, sociology, anecdotal history, pedagogy, and mathematics all share a domain whose unity ends by ceasing any longer to be perceptible. Works like Homo ludens by Huizinga, Jeu de l'enfant by Jean Chateau, and Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by J. von Neumann and O. Morgenstern are not addressed to the same readers, nor do …
Man and the Sacred
After Six Years of a Doubtful Combat
The progress of knowledge consists in part of avoiding superficial analogies and discovering profound kinships, less apparent perhaps, but far more important and significant. In the eighteenth century there still appeared zoölogical works which classed animals according to the number of their paws, grouping, for example, the lizard with the bat. Today the adder appears under the same rubric-a creature that has no paws at all but that, like the ot…
Man, Play and Games
Man and the Sacred
Generalized Esthetics
Forms are produced, it seems to me, by chance, by growth, by design or by imprint. The curves of a pebble, the elusive architecture of clouds, flames, cascades, the cracks in dried-out soil are the result of a variety of causes, or if you like, a variety of interacting accidents, compromises between concurrent forces, balances, wear, or varying degrees of inertia. These, though perhaps calculable, are hardly worth calculating. For we know ahead o…
Man and the Sacred
Throughout the world, people believe that much of what they do is accidental, ordinary, and inconsequential, while other acts can bring on divine retribution or earn eternal grace. In and the Sacred, Caillois demonstrates how humanity's ambiguous attitude toward the sacred influences behaviour and culture. Drawing on a diverse array of ethnographic contexts, including the sexual rituals of the Ba-Thong of South Africa and evidence drawn from abor…
Discours
Circular Time, Rectilinear Time
Writing history, in the humblest sense of the word, is above all a process of dating events, inscribing them in a chronology. Yet this framework, empty and elementary though it may appear, possesses nonetheless properties of its own, somewhat as real extension, the domain of orientation and weight, differs from pure geometrical space. Concrete time, too, has certain qualities, qualities which are not necessarily everywhere the same, and which tak…
Les jeux et les hommes
The Dream and Human Societies
Riddles and Images
Excavations at Snaketown
The Logic of Imagination
It is often difficult to distinguish between the animals of fable and those of zoology. The sphinx, the chimera, the centaur and the hippogriff belong, and always have belonged to the first category. But animals such as the unicorn have long been catalogued and described in works of natural science. In the seventeenth century, a catalogue such as John Johnston's A Description of the Nature of Four-Footed Beasts, written in Latin, translated into …
Dynamics of Dissymmetry
It is not impossible, it is almost inevitable, to conjecture the existence of laws so general that their jurisdiction would be affected neither by the nature nor the scale nor the level of their object-so that they would apply equally to the relations of numbers or of inert or organic matter, to the progression of rigorous thought or the flights of an amused or charmed fancy. If such laws did not govern the whole extent of the real, possible or c…
African Literature in the Age of Criticism
Metamorphoses of Hell
Learned and voluminous works, of course, have brought together and compared the representations men have fashioned for themselves of the Beyond-in other words, of the kind of life in store for them after death. Sometimes the authors of such compilations have tried to classify these imaginary worlds and discover by what secret laws the after-universes where the dead live were designed, and in what spaces, both near and irremediably separate, they …
The College de Sociologie
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