"Rabelais and His World" Quotes
"Rabelais and His World" explores the subversive and carnivalesque elements in the works of Francois Rabelais.
philosophy | 474 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Carnival is a pageant without footlights and without a division into performers and spectators.
The world is turned upside down, and what is festive is taken seriously, and what is serious is taken festively.
The bodily element is deeply positive. It swallows up and gives back. It swallows up the spirit and symbolizes it.
The body is realized in a material and at the same time an ideal possibility.
Carnival is a social institution that, for the time being, reflects the structure and essence of a future social order, of a future social order.
Carnival does not acknowledge any distinction between actors and spectators.
Carnival is the people's second life.
Carnival laughter is the laughter of all the people. At the same time, it is not universal, but particular.
The body, the material bodily principle, is the last bulwark of the freedom that is opposed to the abstract ideals of the official truth, which is institutionalized in the world.
Carnival is the people's feast.
