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A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition

A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition

Cirlot, Juan Eduardo
Miles, Valerie
Sage, Jack

Paperback

Dictionaries & EncyclopediasFiction AnthologiesGeneral Psychology

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 1681371979
ISBN13: 9781681371979
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 22 2020
Pages: 576
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.90 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
A classic encyclopedia of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot that illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art.

Juan Eduardo Cirlot's A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for contemplation, as well as a work of literature, a reference book that is as indispensable as it is brilliant and learned. Cirlot was a composer, a poet, an art critic, and a champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped to bring him to the study of symbolism. Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, René Guénon, Erich Fromm, and Gaston Bachelard also helped to shape his thinking in a book that explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where, as Cirlot sees it, nothing is meaningless, everything is significant, and everything is in some way related to something else. Running from abandonment to zone by way of flute and whip, spanning the cultures of the world, and including a wealth of visual images to further bring the reality of the symbol home, A Dictionary of Symbols, here published for the first time in English in its original, significantly enlarged form, is a luminous and illuminating investigation of the works of eternity in time.

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