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Article: Les freres ennemis: Roger Caillois et Claude Levi-Strauss.
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Roger Caillois, Georges Bataille and Michael Leiris are exponents of a fascinating blend of ethnography, surrealism, philosophy and obsession with le sacre which flourished in the capital of an important colonial empire. Together, in 1938, in the wake of Mauss and Nietzsche, they created that somewhat secret society, the College de Sociologie, devoted to the study of the sacred as well as to darker practices. In eleven short chapters, Michael Panoff traces the intellectual and artistic development of Roger Caillois (1908-1978), writer, poet, philosopher, one-time nietzschean, one-time novelist, one-time surrealist and consequently critic of the surrealists. Thus he further ...