About the Author

Roger Caillois (1913-78), a French philosopher and writer, was a cofounder of France's pathbreaking CollÈge de Sociologie pour l'Étude du SacrÉ and the founding editor of Diogenes, the journal of the International Council for Philosophy and Humanistic Studies. His books included works of anthropology, sociology, psychoanalysis, art, and literary criticism. Meyer Barash, coeditor of Marriage and the Family: A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary Problems, was on the faculty of Hofstra College in New York