Contents ( 51)
- Roberto Calasso
- Contents
- Note for Lucien
- Living in the Torrent
- Exempla Voluptatis
- The Grand Ball
- Treacherous Trifles
- Dismal Glory
- “The Mysterious Force of Legitimacy”
- Arcana Imperii
- The Origins of Sweetness
- Eulogius
- L’Autrichienne
- The Woodcutter and the Fisherman
- Goethe in Venice
- On Taste
- Metamorphoses of Style
- A Belated Nostalgia for Sorrow
- The Languor of a Park in Berry
- Around Port-Royal
- The Ruin of Kasch
- Among the Ruins of Kasch
- Elements of Sacrifice
- Law and Order
- The Forest Doctrine
- Archives and Will-o’-the-Wisps
- Postcards from the Quaternary
- The Demon of Repetition
- Goethe’s Birthday
- Sacrificial Crumbs
- The Antiromantic Child
- Limits
- Process
- Glosses on Marx
- Ricardo’s Ruthlessness
- Geldkristall
- History Makes Experiments
- The Artificial Barbarian
- Un frisson nouveau
- Behind the Glass
- Bien-aimé
- A Visit to Picpus
- “The Organization Wouldn’t Like That”
- The Moscow Doorkeeper
- Montaigne’s Wake
- The Wolf-Man Recalls
- Voices from the Palais-Royal
- Mundus Patet
- Letter from Saint Petersburg
- Notes
- 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.