Cosmography of Dreams

Dream cosmology

This book is a collection of natural history essays by Japanese cultural scholar and translator Ryuhiko Shibusawa. The author effortlessly navigates the mysteries of ancient and modern East and West, weaving and expanding between fantasy and reality, freely leaping between different academic disciplines. Drawing on classic texts, with his extraordinary imagination and keen senses, he explores a variety of fascinating topics, including mechanical puppets, monsters, and angels, using the history of objects to tell the history of society and culture.
☀Celebrity recommendation: If there were no this person, Japan would be such a lonely country.
——Yukio Mishima Among the works I published in the 1960s, my personal favorite is "Cosmographies of Dreams." Through writing this book, I found my own essay style. ——Tatsuhiko Shibusawa ☀Editor's Recommendation
1. Shibusawa Tatsuhiko admits that among his works published in the 1960s, "Cosmography of Dreams" is his personal favorite. Through writing this book, this heretic of beauty and collector of mysticism found his own essayistic style. Therefore, this book can be considered his key work.
2. The book's central theme is human transformation. With dazzling erudition, the author writes about mechanical puppets, monsters, androgynous figures, angels, and other figurative forms to illustrate the eternal dream of transcending the limitations of human nature.
3. In terms of methodology or the morality of expression, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko regarded metaphysics as "something left to servants", emphasizing thinking in images and expressing spirituality with the body. As a result, originally abstract issues such as eroticism, sexology and doomsday theory became circular movements of ideas.
4. Every page of this book has been carefully and creatively laid out by the designer, making Tatsuhiko Shibusawa's unique style and interest visible.

2019-11-01

广西师范大学出版社

Xinmin said

256

9787559817631