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This Débat d'histoire du Collège de France is devoted to a very extraordinary book. Its author is a historian of religions, Ernesto De Martino, and its title is La fin du monde. Essai sur les apocalypses culturelles. The work, published in 1977 in Italian, is now published in French translation by Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. An extraordinary book, first of all, by its history since De Martino, who died in 1965, did not finish it and the work was composed from the written fragments, research files and reading notes left by the author. Extraordinary, also, because it includes in an immense synthesis the themes of the previous works of this ethnologist historian: thus, the forms and functions of magico-religious institutions, the differences and continuities between Christian beliefs and customary practices, the relations between the dead and the living, or the kinship and dissimilarities between individual experiences and collective rituals. These are the themes that The End of the World interweaves with impressive power by studying and comparing various apocalypses: that of the Judeo-Christian tradition, that of colonized peoples, that of contemporary societies or even that which haunts psychopathological experiences and suffering. Read more: http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/... History debate of March 2017. Chair of Professor Roger Chartier: Writing and cultures in modern Europe (2006-2016) Find videos of his teachings: https://www.college-de-france.fr/site... Discover all the resources of the Collège de France: https://www.college-de-france.fr Follow us on: Facebook: / college.de.france Instagram: / collegedefrance