Eranos im Spiegel der geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Eranos in the Framework of the Geistesgeschichte of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: After the publication of the Der verborgene Geist von Eranos. Unbekannte Begegnungen von Wissenshaft und esoterik. Eine alternative Geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (Bretten, 2001) - the first, very complex and comprehensive monograph on the Eranos movement -, Hans Thomas Hakl provides a shorter synthesis on the main spiritual orientations of the principal representatives of the Eranos, namely Henry Corbin, Gershom Scholem and Mircea Eliade. One also finds a more integral view on the development of the general program of these annual meetings, intially limited to the problem of the encounter between the Eastern and the Western cultures, respectively. (It is worth remembering that for the first Eranostagung, at which C.G. Jung, Heinrich Zimmer and Erwin Rousselle took part in 1933, the subject of debate was “Yoga und Meditation im Osten und im Westen”. Later, the area of discussion was enlarged, reaching an inter-disciplinary profile, comprising disciplines such as Psychology, History of Religions, History of Art, Music, Philosophy, Politology, Physics and Biology. Particular attention is given the personality of the founder and promoter of this memorable series of meetings, Olga Frœbe Kapteyn.

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