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Características del artículo
- Estado
- Release Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 9780374535643
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374535647
ISBN-13
9780374535643
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208645691
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ardor
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Hindu, Hinduism / Sacred Writings
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today., [A] careful, thoughtful, and detailed exploration . . . Richard Dixon's supple and elegant translation brings Calasso's poetic meditations to life. Readers will return again and again for wisdom and insight., "Calasso's prose is scrupulously lucid and elegant." -- Pankaj Mishra, The New York Times Book Review " Ardor is Calasso's mode in his serpentine, allusive, and expansive readings . . . provocative . . . Calasso's profuse, high-wire exegesis brings the intricacies and marvels of Vedic thought vividly and evocatively to life." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist "[A] careful, thoughtful, and detailed exploration . . . Richard Dixon's supple and elegant translation brings Calasso's poetic meditations to life. Readers will return again and again for wisdom and insight." -- Publisher's Weekly "Illuminating . . . The author pursues his own quest for enlightenment by questioning, treading carefully and humbling himself before a body of knowledge that has not always been well-served by his Western predecessors. . . . 'The whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further,' writes Calasso. He demands no less from his readers." -- Kirkus Reviews "Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today." -- Charles Simic "Roberto Calasso [is] the most inquisitively suggestive literary critic in the world today." -- Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times "Roberto Calasso [is] a writer about the foundational myths and tales of human society who has no equal in the sparkle of his storytelling and the depth of his learning." -- Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "[Calasso] has certainly managed to open a new road through the old landscape of literature." --John Banville, The New York Review of Books "Roberto Calasso [is] an exceptionally accessible thinker, original and profound." -- Muriel Spark, The Times Literary Supplement, Ardor is Calasso's mode in his serpentine, allusive, and expansive readings . . . provocative . . . Calasso's profuse, high-wire exegesis brings the intricacies and marvels of Vedic thought vividly and evocatively to life., Illuminating . . . The author pursues his own quest for enlightenment by questioning, treading carefully and humbling himself before a body of knowledge that has not always been well-served by his Western predecessors. . . . 'The whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further,' writes Calasso. He demands no less from his readers., "Calasso's prose is scrupulously lucid and elegant." - Pankaj Mishra, The New York Times Book Review " Ardor is Calasso's mode in his serpentine, allusive, and expansive readings . . . provocative . . . Calasso's profuse, high-wire exegesis brings the intricacies and marvels of Vedic thought vividly and evocatively to life." - Donna Seaman, Booklist "[A] careful, thoughtful, and detailed exploration . . . Richard Dixon's supple and elegant translation brings Calasso's poetic meditations to life. Readers will return again and again for wisdom and insight." - Publisher's Weekly "Illuminating . . . The author pursues his own quest for enlightenment by questioning, treading carefully and humbling himself before a body of knowledge that has not always been well-served by his Western predecessors. . . . 'The whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further,' writes Calasso. He demands no less from his readers." - Kirkus Reviews "Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today." -Charles Simic"Roberto Calasso [is] the most inquisitively suggestive literary critic in the world today." -Thomas McGonigle, Los Angeles Times "Roberto Calasso [is] a writer about the foundational myths and tales of human society who has no equal in the sparkle of his storytelling and the depth of his learning." -Boyd Tonkin, The Independent "[Calasso] has certainly managed to open a new road through the old landscape of literature." -John Banville, The New York Review of Books "Roberto Calasso [is] an exceptionally accessible thinker, original and profound." -Muriel Spark, The Times Literary Supplement, [Calasso] has certainly managed to open a new road through the old landscape of literature." --John Banville, The New York Review of Books "Roberto Calasso [is] an exceptionally accessible thinker, original and profound., Roberto Calasso [is] a writer about the foundational myths and tales of human society who has no equal in the sparkle of his storytelling and the depth of his learning., Ardor is Calasso's mode in his serpentine, allusive, and expansive readings . . . provocative . . . Calasso's profuse, high-wire exegesis brings the intricacies and marvels of Vedic thought vividly and evocatively to life.
Dewey Decimal
294.5/921046
Table Of Content
I. Remote Beings II. Yajñavalkya III. Animals IV. The Progenitor V. They Who Saw the Hymns VI. The Adventures of Mind and Speech VII. Atman VIII. Perfect Wakefulness IX. The Brahma?as X. The Line of the Fires XI. Vedic Erotica XII. Gods Who Offer Libations XIII. Residue and Surplus XIV. Hermits in the Forest XV. Ritology XVI. The Sacrifi cial Vision XVII. After the Flood XVIII. Tiki XIX. The Act of Killing XX. The Flight of the Black Antelope XXI. King Soma Antecedents and Consequents Notes Note on Sanskrit Pronunciation Acknowledgments List of Illustrations
Synopsis
In a meditation on the wisdom of the Vedas, Roberto Calasso brings ritual and sacrifice to bear on the modern world In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom The Paris Review has called "a literary institution," explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas. Little is known about the Vedic people, who lived more than three thousand years ago in northern India: They left behind almost no objects, images, or ruins. They created no empires. Even the soma , the likely hallucinogenic plant that appears at the center of some of their rituals, has not been identified with any certainty. Only a "Parthenon of words" remains: verses and formulations suggesting a daring understanding of life. "If the Vedic people had been asked why they did not build cities," writes Calasso, "they could have replied: we did not seek power, but rapture ." This is the ardor of the Vedic world, a burning intensity that is always present, both in the mind and in the cosmos. With his signature erudition and profound sense of the past, Calasso explores the enigmatic web of ritual and myth that defines the Vedas. Often at odds with modern thought, these texts illuminate the nature of consciousness more vividly than anything else has managed to till now. Following the "hundred paths" of the Satapatha Brahma n a , an impressive exegesis of Vedic ritual, Ardor indicates that it may be possible to reach what is closest by passing through that which is most remote, as "the whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further ."
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