A vertiginous polemology. Around the motif of war in Roger Caillois

Abstract

The essay is dedicated to war considered through the reflections of Roger Caillois and in particular through certain motifs – feast, sacred, vertigo – that allow us to grasp its ‘metaphysical’ intention, i.e. capable of looking at war as the point of chiasmatic reversibility of life and death.

Keywords

• Roger Caillois
• war
• sacred
• vertigo
• metaphysics