Name: Conjunctions and Disjunctions
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Author: Paz, Octavio
ISBN: 9781628725322

Type

Physical Book

Author

Octavio Paz

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781628725322

Synopsis "Conjunctions and Disjunctions"

In Conjunctions and Disjunctions, Octavio Paz offers what he calls his "rough draft" for a history of man, which is a history of human nature rather than of men or of cultures and civilizations. For Paz, this history is grounded in the polarity of being and the flux and balance of life. It can be read in the dualities by which we live, the pairs of contrasting concepts or signs by which all cultures organize themselves--body and soul or mind, life and death, eros and thanatos, the sex organs and the face. His book is an exploration of those dualities over time and across traditions, brought together with provocative erudition and a poet's scintillating insight. Ranging through Eastern and Western religions, ancient and contemporary civilizations, and subjects as diverse as history, politics, science, and literature, Paz cites saints, philosophers, anthropologists, and psychoanalysts as he teases out the correspondences and contrasts that comprise this history. The final section of his book seeks to assess not only what this world of contrasting signs represents, but where it is headed--what energies in man will help ensure our future.

Octavio Paz

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Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano (Mexico City, March 31, 1914-ibidem, April 19, 1998), registered at birth as Octavio Irineo Paz Lozano, was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990 and the Cervantes Prize in 1981. He is considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all time.

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