A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition

A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition - Paperback

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A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition - Paperback

A Dictionary of Symbols: Revised and Expanded Edition - Paperback

by Juan Eduardo Cirlot
$34.95
$34.95

Book Overview

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.
ISBN9781681371979
Author Juan Eduardo Cirlot
PublisherNew York Review of Books
GenreLiterature, Education, and Self-help & personal development
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages576
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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