418 Ibid., vv. 117–18.

419 Marquis de Sade, L’Histoire de Juliette, in Œuvres complètes, Tête de Feuilles, Paris, vol. IX, 1973, p. 14.

420 Ibid., p. 15.

421 Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. LXVII.

422 Ibid., ch. LXXVIII.

423 Ibid., ch. LXIX.

424 Ibid.

425 Giorgio de Santillana, La storia da riscrivere, in Reflections on Men and Ideas, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1968, pp. 319–20.

426 Frances Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1964, p. IX.

427 Ibid.

428 Giorgio de Santillana, Riflessioni sul fato. Fato antico, in Reflections on Men and Ideas, cit., p. 326.

429 Plato, Statesman, 269 c–d.

430 Ibid., 269 d.

431 Ibid., 269 e.

432 Simone Weil, Sur la science, Gallimard, Paris, 1966, pp. 216, 245.

433 Simone Weil, La Source grecque, Gallimard, Paris, 1953, p. 156.

434 René Guénon, Études sur l’hindouisme, cit., p. 263.

435 Charles Baudelaire, Mon coeur mis à nu, cit., p. 680.

436 Ibid., p. 678.

437 René Guénon, Les Principes du calcul infinitésimal, Gallimard, Paris, 1946, p. 39.

438 Walter Benjamin, [Paralipomena zu Kafka], in Gesammelte Schriften, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, vol. II, 3, 1977, p. 1219.

439 Franz Kafka, Briefe, S. Fischer, Frankfurt, 1959, pp. 333–34.

440 Walter Benjamin, Briefe, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, vol. II, 1966, p. 803.

441 Victor Hugo, Choses vues (1830–1848), Gallimard, Paris, 1972, p. 439.

442 Uno Harva, Die religiösen Vorstellungen der altaischen Völker, Werner Söderström, Porvoo-Helsinki, 1938, p. 218.

443 Roberte Hamayon, “Il n’y a pas de fumée sans dieu,” in L’Ethnographie, n.s., CXVIII, 1977, n. 74–75, p. 171.

444 Jeremy Bentham, [The Philosophy of Economic Science], in Economic Writings, Allen and Unwin, London, vol. I, 1952, p. 82.

445 Ibid., pp. 117–18.

446 Bentham’s Political Thought, ed. Bhikhu Parekh, Routledge, London, 2016, p. 122.

447 Ibid., p. 123.

448 Ibid., p. 119.

449 Ibid., p. 120.

450 Ibid.

451 John Stuart Mill, Bentham, in Mill on Bentham and Coleridge, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980, p. 42.

452 Ibid., p. 44.

453 Ibid., pp. 62–63.

454 Auguste Blanqui, L’Éternité par les astres, Baillière, Paris, 1872, p. 12.

455 Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy, Penguin, London, 1973, p. 542 (trans. Martin Nicolaus).

456 Ibid., p. 540.

457 Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1951, p. 325 (trans. Agnes Schwarzschild).

458 Ibid., p. 323.

459 Elias Canetti, Masse und Macht, Claassen, Hamburg, 1971, p. 538.

460 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phänomenologie des Geistes, Meiner, Hamburg, 1952, p. 563.

461 Karl Marx, Grundrisse, cit., pp. 487–88.

462 Ibid., p. 488.

463 Ibid.

464 Ibid.

465 Ibid.

466 Ibid., p. 472.

467 Ibid., p. 162.

468 Ibid., pp. 157–58.

469 Ibid., p. 158.

470 Ibid.

471 Ibid.

472 Ibid.

473 Ibid.

474 lbid., p. 159.

475 Ibid., p. 201.

476 Aristotle, Politics, I, 9, 1257 a, 16.

477 Karl Marx, Grundrisse, cit., p. 366

478 Karl Marx, Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, in MEW, vol. XIII, 1964, p. 36.

479 Ibid., p. 34.

480 Ibid., p. 77.