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On the blissful islands with Nietzsche & Jung : in the shadow of the superman
- Title
- On the blissful islands with Nietzsche & Jung : in the shadow of the superman / Paul Bishop.
- Author
- Bishop, Paul, 1967-
- Publication
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-1003 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xxii, 237 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "What are the blissful islands? And where are they? This book takes as its starting-point the chapter called 'On the Blissful Islands' in Part Two of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and its enigmatic conclusion: 'The beauty of the Superman came to me as a shadow'. From this remarkable and powerful passage, it disengages the Nietzschean idea of the Superman and the Jungian notion of the shadow, moving these concepts into a new, interdisciplinary direction. In particular, On the Blissful Islands seeks to develop the kind of interpretative approach that Jung himself employed. Its chief topics are classical (the motif of the blissful islands), psychological (the shadow), and philosophical (the Übermensch or superman), blended together to produce a rich, intellectual-historical discussion. By bringing context and depth to a nexus of highly problematic concepts, it offers something new to the specialist and the general reader alike. So this book considers the significance of the statue in the culture of antiquity (and in alchemy), and investigates the associated notion of self-sculpting as a form of existential exercise. This Neoplatonic theme is pursued in relation to a poem by Schiller, at the centre of which lies the notion of self-sculpting, thus highlighting Nietzsche's (and Jung's) relationship to Idealism. Its conclusion directly addresses the vexed (and controversial) question of Nietzsche's relation to Plato."--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-1003
- ISBN
- 9781138791619
- 113879161X
- 9781138791626
- 1138791628
- LCCN
- 2016023524
- OCLC
- 953823506
- Author
- Bishop, Paul, 1967- author.
- Title
- On the blissful islands with Nietzsche & Jung : in the shadow of the superman / Paul Bishop.
- Publisher
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-1003