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Ardor

Af: Roberto Calasso Engelsk Paperback

Ardor

Af: Roberto Calasso Engelsk Paperback
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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, ruins. 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 define the Vedas. Often at odds with modern thought, he shows how these texts illuminate the nature of consciousness more than neuroscientists have been able to offer us up to now.

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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, ruins. 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 define the Vedas. Often at odds with modern thought, he shows how these texts illuminate the nature of consciousness more than neuroscientists have been able to offer us up to now.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9781846145070
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1846145074
Udg. Dato: 26 nov 2015
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 144mm
Højde: 201mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 26 nov 2015
Forfatter(e): Roberto Calasso
Forfatter(e) Roberto Calasso


Kategori Østasiatisk og indisk filosofi


ISBN-13 9781846145070


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 432


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 144mm


Højde 201mm


Udg. Dato 26 nov 2015


Oplagsdato 26 nov 2015


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd

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