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Praise for "La Folie Baudelaire""Roberto Calasso [is] the most inquisitively suggestive literary critic in the world today." --Thomas McGonigle, "Los Angeles Times""""["La Folie Baudelaire"] is as red-blooded as art criticism gets, and a suitable encomium for the greatest of art critics." --Jad Adams, "The Daily Telegraph""[A] careful, thoughtful, and detailed exploration . . . Richard Dixon's supple and elegant translation brings Calasso's poetic meditations to life. Readers will return again and again for wisdom and insight." --"Publisher's Weekly""Illuminating . . . The author pursues his own quest for enlightenment by questioning, treading carefully and humbling himself before a body of knowledge that has not always been well-served by his Western predecessors. . . . 'The whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further, ' writes Calasso. He demands no less from his readers." --"Kirkus Reviews""Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today." --Charles Simic"Roberto Calasso [is] the most inquisitively suggestive literary critic in the world today." --Thomas McGonigle, "Los Angeles Times""Roberto Calasso [is] a writer about the foundational myths and tales of human society who has no equal in the sparkle of his storytelling and the depth of his learning." --Boyd Tonkin, "The Independent""[Calasso] has certainly managed to open a new road through the old landscape of literature." --John Banville, "The New York Review of Books""Roberto Calasso [is] an exceptionally accessible thinker, original and profound." --Muriel Spark, "The Times Literary Supplement"""Ardor" is Calasso's mode in his serpentine, allusive, and expansive readings . . . provocative . . . Calasso's profuse, high-wire exegesis brings the intricacies and marvels of Vedic thought vividly and evocatively to life." "--"Donna Seaman, "Booklist""""[A] careful, thoughtful, and detailed exploration . . . Richard Dixon's supple and elegant translation brings Calasso's poetic meditations to life. Readers will return again and again for wisdom and insight." --"Publisher's Weekly""Illuminating . . . The author pursues his own quest for enlightenment by questioning, treading carefully and humbling himself before a body of knowledge that has not always been well-served by his Western predecessors. . . . 'The whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further, ' writes Calasso. He demands no less from his readers." --"Kirkus Reviews""Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today." --Charles Simic"Roberto Calasso [is] the most inquisitively suggestive literary critic in the world today." --Thomas McGonigle, "Los Angeles Times""Roberto Calasso [is] a writer about the foundational myths and tales of human society who has no equal in the sparkle of his storytelling and the depth of his learning." --Boyd Tonkin, "The Independent""[Calasso] has certainly managed to open a new road through the old landscape of literature." --John Banville, "The New York Review of Books""Roberto Calasso [is] an exceptionally accessible thinker, original and profound." --Muriel Spark, "The Times Literary Supplement""Calasso's prose is scrupulously lucid and elegant." "--"Pankaj Mishra, "The New York Times Book Review"""Ardor" is Calasso's mode in his serpentine, allusive, and expansive readings . . . provocative . . . Calasso's profuse, high-wire exegesis brings the intricacies and marvels of Vedic thought vividly and evocatively to life." "--"Donna Seaman, "Booklist""""[A] careful, thoughtful, and detailed exploration . . . Richard Dixon's supple and elegant translation brings Calasso's poetic meditations to life. Readers will return again and again for wisdom and insight." --"Publisher's Weekly""Illuminating . . . The author pursues his own quest for enlightenment by questioning, treading carefully and humbling himself before a body of knowledge that has not always been well-served by his Western predecessors. . . . 'The whole of Vedic India was an attempt to think further, ' writes Calasso. He demands no less from his readers." --"Kirkus Reviews""Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today." --Charles Simic"Roberto Calasso [is] the most inquisitively suggestive literary critic in the world today." --Thomas McGonigle, "Los Angeles Times""Roberto Calasso [is] a writer about the foundational myths and tales of human society who has no equal in the sparkle of his storytelling and the depth of his learning." --Boyd Tonkin, "The Independent""[Calasso] has certainly managed to open a new road through the old landscape of literature." --John Banville, "The New York Review of Books""Roberto Calasso [is] an exceptionally accessible thinker, original and profound." --Muriel Spark, "The Times Literary Supplement"
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About the Author
Roberto Calasso is the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni in Milan and is the author of many books. Ardor is the seventh part of a work in progress, following The Ruin of Kasch, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, and La Folie Baudelaire.
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Product details
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition (November 18, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374182310
ISBN-13: 978-0374182311
Product Dimensions:
6.3 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.8 out of 5 stars
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#726,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Modern Hinduism gives reverence and lip service to the Vedas while primarily being derived from the Puranas and the Tantras. In consequence Vedic (meaning the Samhita hymns, and the Brahmana commentaries) are used ritually but their meaning is not really understood even by the purohits who make a good living from them.Mr. Calasso dives into the very difficult Satapatha Brahmana to understand and explain the mindset of the Vedic seers who designed the yagna rituals. It is the only work of its kind I have actually seen.Along the way he discusses and explains tapas, translated as "Ardor", libations, animal sacrifice, atman, the god Prajapati , the sage Yajnavalka and other familiar Vedic matters. All is done beautifully and with his characteristic depth.A wonderful work that is must reading for those who wish to understand the Vedic mindset.
One of the best critics, essayists, philosophers alive today. This is part of a series on religion unlike anything else available. This one is about Hinduism. He's also written on Greece, Baudelaire, art history, Tiepolo, and numerous critical essays on a variety of topics. Superb writer. (This portion of review repeats for other books.)
"The ṛṣis reached an unattainable level of knowledge not just because they thought certain thoughts but because they burned. Ardor comes before thought."Wendy Doniger famously hailed Calasso's previous book "Ka" as "[t]he very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written." After engaging the subject for another fifteen years of intense contemplation, Calasso has returned to it. And the resulting "Ardor," I'm delighted to report after weeks of carefully reading the new English translation, is significantly superior to Ka. I won't limit my praise to books on Hindu mythology; this is the best book I've read this year, and one of the best books on religion you're ever likely to read.Calasso tells us he originally began writing Ardor as an intended commentary on perhaps the least loved, and least accessible, corpus of ancient Indian religious texts: The Brahmanas, specifically the Satapatha Brahmana. The earliest Vedas, the Rg Veda hymns, can generally be appreciated through the broader lens of religious hymns, while the later Upanishads (which the Brahmanas ultimately segue into) can be appreciated through the lens of philosophy. But the intermediary Brahmanas represent a thorny challenge. What to do with this vast corpus of awesomely complex ancient liturgical analysis and theorizing? How to engage this immense body of thought regarding a vanished practice of complex sacrificial ritual? Many scholars have just condemned the Brahmanas as priestly nonsense, and most people interested in Indian religion skip over the Vedic sacrificial texts into the more congenial later periods of Hindu religion and philosophy, starting with the Upanishads and then the medieval texts. Krishna, Vedanta, ahimsa, all of this is widely preferred to the Vedic sacrificial post, the altar, the animal, the mass of equivalences.Not Calasso. Rather than dancing about the edges, this is a book about Vedic thought and Vedic sacrificial ritual, focusing on the Brahmanas as composed between the 10th and 6th centuries B.C.E. Calasso's discussions are admirably informed by his engagement with Indological scholars, and he blithely informs us that the Sanskrit translations are his own 'unless otherwise indicated.' The book's overall tone is anthropological in the broad sense, rather than the more literary Ka, and not narrowly philosophical. Many readers might lament the corresponding rarity of stories, compared to Ka. But how could it be otherwise? Sacrificial ritual is not just a story like any other, nor can sacrificial thought (per Calasso) be reduced to a simple positivist description of social behavior. Ardor consists largely of essay after essay which engage different aspects of what, exactly, ritual sacrifice is and what it means, much like the Brahmanas themselves.The essays are dizzying, incendiary. Each provokes thoughts for days. Each ranges across an amazing variety of subjects. Rarely does Calasso lose his footing or focus. With his background as the head of a prestigious Italian publishing firm, Calasso's prior works are known for tracing connections between 'absolute' modern literature and ancient religious thought. Ardor is full of such observations, and for the most part they are incisive, particularly in the context of the Vedic preoccupation with bandhu, equivalences. For Calasso, bandhu are another form of the equivalences now found in another world of thought which likewise resists reduction, and which over time has been torn from its social ritual context and internalized in the solitary sacrificer/sacrifice: The modern artist. Much of Ardor consists of engaging these types of equivalences and thinking about them deeply. Calasso calls this 'connective thinking,' and contrasts it with 'substitutive thinking.'This analogical mode of thought, connective thinking, is extremely difficult. In the hands of somebody who is less than an absolute master, it readily degenerates into gibberish or pop song banalities (e.g. "love is ... sacrifice. love is ... forgiveness. love is ... you."). Though Calasso does not say so, a book like Ardor itself is (in keeping with Calasso's view of modern art) analogous to the Vedic sacrifice ... carefully crafted to travel an infinitely difficult path by which human thought mediates the visible and invisible worlds, steeped in guilt and danger, with every step requiring intense concentration and perfect execution. Every essay in Ardor is perfectly calibrated in that manner, and manifests what Calasso terms the 'sacrificial attitude.' The prose is simpler, more direct than Calasso's typical work, as required for the subject's difficulty. Even the artwork is perfectly selected.It all works beautifully from start to finish. With Ardor, Calasso has helped extricate Vedic thought from its current protective shield of New Age silliness, Hindutva dogma, accusations of Orientalism, feeble 'spirituality,' etc. Ardor's first chapter, entitled "Remote Beings," begins by discussing how remote the Vedic world is from our modern life. Vedic thought is nobody's property -- not that of academics, gurus, Hindutva, politicians. And it's not a lesson on tame 'spirituality' for modern life. But like other ancient human worlds, that immense distance does not mean it is lost or insignificant. It is a total world of vast significance, one that Calasso recovers and brings to life. Ardor is, as the title suggests, an absolute fire within the mind, and by extension the world; precision and soul, to use Musil's phrase (cited by Calasso in this book, but you'll have to read for yourself to find out how).Although Ardor is less accessible than Ka (less stories, more ritual discussion, more anthropological thought), I can't imagine anybody who enjoys reading, and thought generally, who wouldn't love this book. One of the most fascinating men alive, engaging one of the most fascinating possible subjects, with total intensity. The book is sheer joy, and with any justice will rank as a classic. This isn't a moderate review, but it isn't a moderate book, nor a moderate subject. The point is to intoxicate; Soma is the sacrifice. Books like this are why I read.Finally, The Paris Review has recently published online a superb interview with Calasso himself -- please go read it! It will give you some background and insight if you are new to Calasso and his work.
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I have read Calasso's "Ka" and "The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony" which were both brilliant works on Indian and Greek mythology. The style of narration was one of the best I have read with a very clear and precise understanding of these cultures and their stories.Ardor is a bit different. It is a more academic work and often will seem very dry. There are historical contexts to different modern western translations. Roberto Calasso comments on the historical prospective, the language difficulties and the cultural connotations (Aryan-Indian) with occasional comparisons to ancient Greeks and modern German philosophers (Kant and Schopenhauer).Ardor is a work of Metaphysics from the mouths of the ancients. It is a telling of the Rig Veda and Upanishads. The insights that Roberto brings are unique and is definitely worth the time and effort. This book is for someone intimately interested in Indian Vedantic Philosophy or Hindu culture and Traditions. This book should be complemented with other Indian works on Vedas/Upanishads or works of Indian Philosophy e.g. by Radhakrishnan.
Excellent with more than just the usual philosophico-theologico intellectual cha cha cha. It may change your thoughts about what you think is the case.
Calasso, in a certain way, is a massive, hyper-intelligent, talking library. The extent of his erudition is difficult to overstate. But what's really impressive is the ability he has to make (extremely novel, highly insightful) connections from among his enormous repository of knowledge.Adding to this, the quality of the writing is difficult to describe. No wasted words, but a host of really powerful ones. The translator, Dixon, deserves a lot of credit. l can scarcely imagine how beautiful this book must be in its native Italian.If you are interested in the Vedas, I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Equally so, however, if you are simply open to having your mind expanded, somewhat ironically without chemicals (given the emphasis on soma in the culture and texts on which Calasso is commenting).This was one of the first books I have ever read.
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