Festival, vacation, war
Roger Caillois and the politics of paroxysm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3132872 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Romi Mukherjee, S Romi Mukherjee (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | s1 |
| Pages | 119-138 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Social Science Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-8701 • E-ISSN: 1468-2451 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-2451.2009.01692.x |
| OpenAlex | W2060407864 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
I trace the evolution of Roger Caillois' theories of paroxysm and festival and his early sense of the political somatic structure of the social organism. I attempt to systematise his category of the paroxysmic, a mutation of Durkheimian effervescence, and examine it in relationship to his theory of the sacred as a vertiginous space of order/disorder. I then carefully explore Caillois' phenomenological anthropology that narrates the decline of the social and the sacred from the primitive to the modern and also critically explore his dialectic of festival, vacation and war. I demonstrate that Caillois' propositions, while grounded in the history of religions, reveal a political ontological hermeneutic that remains a vital critique of the modern nation-state
Aesthetics · Dialectic · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Order (exchange) · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Citations per year | 0.6 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |