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Ardor (Paperback)
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Ardor (Paperback)
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Loot Price R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
You Save R73 (18%)
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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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