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A fundamental contribution to the endless, contentious, productive dialogue between morphology and history. Andre Jolles, the interlocutor of Aby Warburg and Johan Huizinga, is still provoking us with his work. The long overdue translation of a classic. --Carlo Ginzburg Simple Forms can be counted among the standard works of scholarship. --Hans-Georg Gadamer Jolles's versatility was an inevitable result of his extraordinary receptivity and omnivorous interest in all aspects of the study of art and culture and of his talent for absorbing and processing things, and for combining disparate material. --Johan Huizinga It is a cause for celebration to have Jolles's classic Simple Forms in English ... a great book, always stimulating, and exhilarating in its speculative leaps, its shrewd insights, its wilder guesses. --Fredric Jameson, from the Foreword

A fundamental contribution to the endless, contentious, productive dialogue between morphology and history. Andre Jolles, the interlocutor of Aby Warburg and Johan Huizinga, is still provoking us with his work. The long overdue translation of a classic. <b> --Carlo Ginzburg</b> <i>Simple Forms</i> can be counted among the standard works of scholarship. <b> --Hans-Georg Gadamer</b> Jolles's versatility was an inevitable result of his extraordinary receptivity and omnivorous interest in all aspects of the study of art and culture and of his talent for absorbing and processing things, and for combining disparate material. <b> --Johan Huizinga</b> It is a cause for celebration to have Jolles's classic <i>Simple Forms</i> in English ... a great book, always stimulating, and exhilarating in its speculative leaps, its shrewd insights, its wilder guesses. <b> --Fredric Jameson, from the Foreword</b>

A fundamental contribution to the endless, contentious, productive dialogue between morphology and history. Andre Jolles, the interlocutor of Aby Warburg and Johan Huizinga, is still provoking us with his work. The long overdue translation of a classic. --Carlo Ginzburg Simple Forms can be counted among the standard works of scholarship. --Hans-Georg Gadamer Jolles's versatility was an inevitable result of his extraordinary receptivity and omnivorous interest in all aspects of the study of art and culture and of his talent for absorbing and processing things, and for combining disparate material. --Johan Huizinga It is a cause for celebration to have Jolles's classic Simple Forms in English ... a great book, always stimulating, and exhilarating in its speculative leaps, its shrewd insights, its wilder guesses. --Fredric Jameson, from the Foreword Jolles extended a formal curiosity and intellectual generosity that critics otherwise would only accord to works by established geniuses of the Western canon... A humbling account of human thought as an attempt to reach beyond our cognitive and agential limitations... Simple Forms speaks to us with surprising directness and insight. - Marta Figlerowicz, LARB

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André Jolles (1874-1946) was a scholar of ethnology, folklore and aesthetics and is considered by many to be a precursor of structuralism.

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