Eranos Yearbook 70
2009/2010-2011
9783856307509
pages
Daimon Verlag
Overview
The 70th volume of the Eranos Yearbooks presents the work of the last three years of activities at the Eranos Foundation (2009-2011). It includes the papers given on the theme of the 2011 conference, About Fragility in the Contemporary World, together with talks given on the occasion of the seminar cycle entitled, Eranos Jung Lectures, which took place during the years 2010-2011 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Carl Gustav Jung s passing. Eminent international scholars gathered to share their work, presented here primarily in English, along with some chapters in Italian. This publication carries additional special meaning in further consolidating the collaboration with the Fetzer Institute by presenting the manuscripts of the Dialogues on the Power of Love, held at Eranos between 2008 and 2011. This project follows the path of the original model of Eranos, especially the aspect of dialogue, searching for understanding and deepening crucial themes in the contemporary world.
Author Bio
In 1933 in a secluded villa on the mountainous shore of Lago Maggiore, in Ascona, Switzerland, a group of scholars, organized by the inspired Olga Fröebe-Kapteyn, gathered around C. G. Jung to discuss the research topics they were involved in, whether in psychology, religion, anthropology, or the classics. At this conference, the first of the Eranos Conferences or in German, Tagung, a unique tradition was born. And the Eranos Conferences have continued up to this day. The conferences continue to provide a fertile opportunity for meetings and creative discussions. Eranos Conferences have become famous for their diversity and breadth of humanistic content. Focusing on general humanist topics, the conferences often bring to the forefront of discussion Eastern philosophies and religions little known to the West, or cutting-edge scientific theories. Over the years the Eranos Conferences have produced over six hundred original works, published in sixty-six volumes of Eranos Yearbooks.
