A Dictionary of Symbols
Edition: Definitive edition
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Diccionario de símbolos tradicionales
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781681371979
Subjects: Symbolism
Other titles: A dictionary of symbols : revised and expanded
Description: Cirlot was a composer, a poet, an art critic, and a champion of modern art whose interest in surrealism helped to bring him to the study of symbolism. Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, René Guénon, Erich Fromm, and Gaston Bachelard also helped to shape his thinking in a book that explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where, as Cirlot sees it, nothing is meaningless, everything is significant, and everything is in some way related to something else.