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Caillois—centrist, dedicated to lucidity and effort in the face of the looser, potentially obscurantist transports of Surrealism and its descendants—never managed to shake the reputation of fuddyduddydom. But his dream of a hard-won, rigorous imagination and inspiration remains instructive, a guide for the kind of expansive thinking our moment requires. His lifelong engagement with the question of order and enchantment across the human and the nonhuman now yields new insights as humanity's "geologic" status enters the frame.
Frank provides a great overview here, nuancing his relationships to many major figures and his politics (e.g. clarifying that his hierarchical dreams don’t equate to anything like fascism), offering paths across an elusive oeuvre, and out into the intellectual landscape he was a part of.
Frank provides a great overview here, nuancing his relationships to many major figures and his politics (e.g. clarifying that his hierarchical dreams don’t equate to anything like fascism), offering paths across an elusive oeuvre, and out into the intellectual landscape he was a part of.
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