College de sociologie (English: College de sociologie)

…Born in Reims, he spent his youth in Paris, where he studied grammar and religious studies. At the invitation of Breton, he briefly turned to surrealism, but was dismayed by its unscientific nature, and decided to choose the sacred reality over the surreal. He immediately formed the Collège de sociologie (society for studying sociology) with G. Bataille and Leiris (1938). In the same year, Caillois finally set out to elucidate the sacred in Myth and Man, which focused on the praying mantis as its subject. He continued to try to discover the basis of illusion through the form of festivals, the instincts of animals, the world of dreams, and so on, and finally focused on the idea of ​​play, which revolves around the center of the sacred, and wrote the immortal Play and Man (1958) and On War (1963). …

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…ランスに生まれ，青年期をパリに送って文法学と宗教学を修得。一時ブルトンに誘われてシュルレアリスムに身を寄せたが，その非科学性にあきれ，〈超現実〉よりも〈聖現実〉を選ぶことを決意，ただちにG.バタイユ，レリスらと組んで社会学研究会Collège de sociologieを結成した(1938)。同年，カマキリを観察対象とした《神話と人間》でいよいよ〈聖〉の解明に乗り出したカイヨアは，その後も祭りの形態，動物の本能，夢の世界などを通して幻想の根拠をつきとめる努力をつづけ，ついに〈聖〉の中心に旋回してやまない〈遊〉の観念に着目，不朽の《遊びと人間》(1958)と《戦争論》(1963)を著した。…

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