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Contents ( 51)
  1. Roberto Calasso
  2. Contents
  3. Note for Lucien
  4. Living in the Torrent
  5. Exempla Voluptatis
  6. The Grand Ball
  7. Treacherous Trifles
  8. Dismal Glory
  9. “The Mysterious Force of Legitimacy”
  10. Arcana Imperii
  11. The Origins of Sweetness
  12. Eulogius
  13. L’Autrichienne
  14. The Woodcutter and the Fisherman
  15. Goethe in Venice
  16. On Taste
  17. Metamorphoses of Style
  18. A Belated Nostalgia for Sorrow
  19. The Languor of a Park in Berry
  20. Around Port-Royal
  21. The Ruin of Kasch
  22. Among the Ruins of Kasch
  23. Elements of Sacrifice
  24. Law and Order
  25. The Forest Doctrine
  26. Archives and Will-o’-the-Wisps
  27. Postcards from the Quaternary
  28. The Demon of Repetition
  29. Goethe’s Birthday
  30. Sacrificial Crumbs
  31. The Antiromantic Child
  32. Limits
  33. Process
  34. Glosses on Marx
  35. Ricardo’s Ruthlessness
  36. Geldkristall
  37. History Makes Experiments
  38. The Artificial Barbarian
  39. Un frisson nouveau
  40. Behind the Glass
  41. Bien-aimé
  42. A Visit to Picpus
  43. “The Organization Wouldn’t Like That”
  44. The Moscow Doorkeeper
  45. Montaigne’s Wake
  46. The Wolf-Man Recalls
  47. Voices from the Palais-Royal
  48. Mundus Patet
  49. Letter from Saint Petersburg
  50. Notes
  51. THE BEGINNING

246 From the manuscript version of Relation de la captivité de la mère Angélique de Saint-Jean, in Sainte-Beuve, Port-Royal, cit., vol. IV, 1859, p. 142.

247 Ibid.

248 Ibid., p. 151.

249 Ibid., p. 152.

250 Leo Frobenius, Brief aus dem Ostsudan, in Vom Schreibtisch zum Äquator, Societäts-Druckerei, Frankfurt, 1925, pp. 411–12.

251 Ibid., p. 414.

252 Leo Frobenius, Atlantis, Diederìchs, Jena, vol. IV, 1923, p. 8.

253 Leo Frobenius, Monumenta Africana, Societäts-Druckerei, Frankfurt, 1929, pp. 293–94.

254 Leo Frobenius, Atlantis, cit., vol. IV, p. 4.

255 Ibid., p. 21.

256 Leo Frobenius, Kulturgeschichte Afrikas, Phaidon, Zürich, 1933, pp. 273–74.

257 Marcel Granet, Danses et légendes de la Chine ancienne, Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, vol. II, 1959, pp. 500–501.

258 Chuang-tzu, XXI (trans. Liou Kia-hway).

259 Ṛg Veda, X, 93, 5 (trans. Abel Bergaigne).

260 Maitrāyaṇi Saṃhitā, 1, 10, 11 (trans. Sylvain Lévi).

261 René Guénon, Études sur l’hindouisme, Éditions Traditionnelles, Paris, 1966, p. 263.

262 Ṛg Veda, I, 163, 12 (trans. Karl Friedrich Geldner).

263 Ibid., I, 162, 20.

264 Tāṇḍya Mahā Brāhmaṇa, 25, 8, 2 (trans. Sylvain Lévi).

265 Taittirīya Saṃhitā, 6, 3, 4, 8 (trans. Sylvain Lévi).

266 Bhagavad Gītā, III, 5 (trans. Émile Senart).

267 Ibid., III, 16.

268 Ibid., III, 24.

269 Lucretius, De rerum natura, V, 1200–1201.

270 Simone Weil, Cahiers, Plon, Paris, vol. I, 1970, p. 263.

271 Ibid., p. 27.

272 Mahārmavibhaṅga, 1 (trans. Sylvain Lévi).

273 Majjhimanikāya, XXVI (trans. Lilian Silburn).

274 Bṛhad Āraṇyaka Upaniṣad, I, 2, 1 (trans. Émile Senart).

275 Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 177.

276 Simone Weil, Cahiers, cit., vol. I, p. 143.

277 Porphyry, De abstinentia, II, 46, 2.

278 Ibid., I, 28, 1.

279 Ibid., I, 32, 1.

280 Ibid., II, 45, 4.

281 Ibid.

282 Ibid., II, 61, 8.

283 Epistle to the Galatians 2:19.

284 Epistle to the Romans 6:2.

285 Porphyry, De abstinentia, II, 26, 3.

286 Ibid., II, 15, 3.

287 Ibid., II, 61, 1.

288 Ibid., II, 61, 2.

289 René Guénon, Études sur l’hindouisme, cit., p. 194.

290 Manu Smrti, III, 67–71 (trans. George Bühler).

291 Charles Lullier, Mes cachots, Chez l’Auteur, Paris, 1881, p. 205.

292 Oracle no. 537 in H. W. Parke and D. E. W. Wormell, The Delphic Oracle, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, vol. II, 1956, p. 214.

293 Joseph de Maistre, Éclaircissement sur les sacrifices, in Les soirées de Saint-Pétersbourg, Librairie Grecque, Latine et Française, Paris, vol. II, 1821, p. 395.

294 Theodor Adorno, Minima moralia, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1951, p. 428.

295 René Girard, Des Choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde, Grasset, Paris, 1978, p. 134.

296 John 11:50.

297 René Girard, Le Bouc émissaire, Grasset, Paris, 1982, p. 164.

298 Ibid., p. 208.

299 René Girard, La Violence et le sacré, Grasset, Paris, 1972, p. 177.

300 Charles Baudelaire, Mon coeur mis à nu, in Œuvres complètes, cit., vol. I, 1975, p. 683.

301 Chuang-tzu, XIX, 6 (trans. Liou Kia-hway).

302 Karl Marx, Das Kapital, in Marx Engels Werke (MEW), Dietz, Berlin, vol. XXV, 1969, p. 600.