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Ren�e Daumal : the life and work of a mystic guide / Kathleen Ferrick Rosenblatt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditionsPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 252 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585075352
  • 9780585075358
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ren�e Daumal.DDC classification:
  • 841/.912 B 21
LOC classification:
  • PQ2607.A86 Z86 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- I. Biography ; 1. An anarchist of perception ; 2. Daumal and renunciation: The imbecility of individualism ; 3. Drug experimentation: Asphyxia and absurd evidence -- II. The pataphysical pursuits ; 4. Surrealism and le grand jeu: Living on the paraphysical edge ; 5. The avant-garde and party politics: Marginal marxism -- III. Eastern studies ; 6. The influence of Hindu thought: Renunciation and transformation ; 7. Daumal in the Labyrinth of Pathways: The influence of Rene Guenon ; 8. Daumal and Hindu poetics: The Rasa of the word -- IV. Gurdjieff and the de Salzmanns ; 9. Daumal with Gurdjieff and the de Salzmanns: Finding the path -- V. Main works ; 10. The poetry of le Contre Ciel: Death and her consort ; 11. La Grande Beuverie: A night of drunken delusions ; 12. Mount analogue: Non-euclidian mountain climbing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-240) and index.

Introduction -- I. Biography ; 1. An anarchist of perception ; 2. Daumal and renunciation: The imbecility of individualism ; 3. Drug experimentation: Asphyxia and absurd evidence -- II. The pataphysical pursuits ; 4. Surrealism and le grand jeu: Living on the paraphysical edge ; 5. The avant-garde and party politics: Marginal marxism -- III. Eastern studies ; 6. The influence of Hindu thought: Renunciation and transformation ; 7. Daumal in the Labyrinth of Pathways: The influence of Rene Guenon ; 8. Daumal and Hindu poetics: The Rasa of the word -- IV. Gurdjieff and the de Salzmanns ; 9. Daumal with Gurdjieff and the de Salzmanns: Finding the path -- V. Main works ; 10. The poetry of le Contre Ciel: Death and her consort ; 11. La Grande Beuverie: A night of drunken delusions ; 12. Mount analogue: Non-euclidian mountain climbing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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