Research Catalog

Title

Eranos : an alternative intellectual history of the twentieth century / Hans Thomas Hakl ; translated by Christopher McIntosh ; with the collaboration of Hereward Tilton.

Author

Hakl, Hans Thomas

Publication

Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

McIntosh, Christopher, 1943-

Description

xvi, 440 p.; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Verborgene Geist von Eranos. English

Alternative Title

• Verborgene Geist von Eranos.
• Alternative intellectual history of the twentieth century

Subject

• Eranos Conference > History
• 1900-1999
• 1900-talet
• Religion > History > 20th century
• Spiritualism (Philosophy) > History > 20th century
• Occultism > History > 20th century
• Psychology and religion > History > 20th century
• Intellectual life > History > 20th century

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Note

• Originally published under title: Der verborgene Geist von Eranos : unbekannte Begegnungen von Wissenschaft und Esoterik : eine alternative Geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts.
• Co-published by Equinox.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-426) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The significance of Eranos -- An esoteric prelude to Eranos -- Yearning for the east : Monte Verità and the school of wisdom -- Toward Eranos -- The first Eranos meeting : an idea comes to life -- Eranos and national socialism -- The years 1934-37 -- Eranos 1938 : the United States shows interest -- The war years -- New prospects after the world conflict -- The heyday begins -- The early 1950s -- Polytheism versus monotheism -- An end, some new beginnings and repeated turbulence -- Delicate questions and attempts to answer them -- Eranos as a prototype -- The end of a cycle...or perhaps not.

ISBN

• 9780773540873 (bound)
• 0773540873 (bound)
• 9780773540880 (pbk.)
• 0773540881 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 791161092
• SCSB-12413479

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library