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A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations investigates contemporary protest self-burnings and their echoes across culture. The book provides a conceptual frame for the phenomenon and an annotated, comprehensive timeline of suicide protests by fire, supplemented with notes on artworks inspired by or devoted to individual cases. The core of the publication consists of six case studies of these ultimate acts, augmented with analyses and interpretations hailing from the visual arts, film, theatre, architecture, and literature. By examining responses to these events within an interdisciplinary frame, Ziółkowski highlights the phenomenon’s global reach and creates a broad, yet in-depth, exploration ...
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Nel solco di pensatori come Giorgio de Santillana e Hertha von Dechend, questo libro, che raccoglie e sistematizza alcuni articoli dell'autore apparsi su riviste specializzate nel pensiero tradizionale, vuole essere un contributo alla ricerca mitica in chiave cosmo-teologica.