Papers From the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 3 (ebook)

Argumento de Papers From the Eranos Yearbooks, Eranos 3 (ebook)

Essays by Henry Corbin, Mircea Eliade, C. G. Jung, Max Knoll, G. van der Leeuw, Louis Massignon, Erich Neumann, Helmuth Plessner, Adolf Portmann, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, and Hellmut Wilhelm. With an introduction by Henry Corbin.

Originally published in 1957.

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LIST OF PLATES ix
EDITOR'S FOREWORD xi
THE TIME OF ERANOS by Henry Corbin xiii
ERICH NEUMANN Art and Time [1951] 1
HENRI-CHARLES PuECH Gnosis and Time [1951] 38
GILLES QUISPEL Time and History to Patristic Christianity [1951] 85
LOUIS MASSIGNON Time in Islamic Thought [1951] 108
HENRY CORBIN Cyclical Time in Mazdaism and Ismailism [1951] 115
1. CYCLICAL TIME IN MAZDAISM: The Ages of the World in Zoroastrian Mazdaism 115
The Absolute Time of Zervanism 126
Dramaturgical Alterations 134
Time as a Personal Archetype 136
2. CYCLICAL TIME IN ISMAILISM: Absolute Time and Limited Time in the Ismaili Cosmology 144
The Periods and Cycles of Mythohistory 15 1
Resurrection as the Horizon of the Time of 'Combat for the Angel' 161
MIRCEA ELIADE Time and Eternity in Indian Thought [1951] 173
The Function of the Myths 173
Indian Myths of Time 175
The Doctrine of the Yugas 177
Cosmic Time and History 181
The 'Terror of Time' 184
Indian Symbolism of the Abolition of Time 186
The 'Broken Egg' 189
The Philosophy of Time in Buddhism 190
Images and Paradoxes 193
Techniques of Escape from Time 195
C. G. JUNG On Synchronicity [1951] 201
HELLMUT WILHELM The Concept of Time in the Book of Changes [1951] 212
HELMUTH PLESSNER On the Relation of Time to Death [1951] 233
MAX KNOLL Transformations of Science in Our Age [1951] 264
1. GROWING AWARENESS OF TYPICAL PAIRS OF ASPECTS IN PHYSICS, PSYCHOLOGY, AND OTHER SCIENCES:
A. Nature of the Human Perceptive Faculty: Complementarity of the Perceptive Function and of the `Observable' World 267
B. Perceptive Functions Necessary for Physicists 270
C. Pairs of Aspects in Physical Knowledge 273
D. Pairs of Aspects in the Description of Macroscopic Events 275
E. Complementary Pairs of Aspects in the Description of a Single Atom 275
F. Analogous Pairs of Aspects in Physics and Psychology 276
G. Further Pairs of Aspects in Various Sciences and in Ancient and Modern Philosophy 280
2. ASTROBIOLOGICAL, ASTROPSYCHOLOGIGAL, AND PHYSICAL TIME 285
A. Physical Effects of Solar Radiations 287
B. Some Astrobiological Phenomena 294
C. Reports and Hypotheses on the Induction of Typical Behavior Patterns by Meteorological Factors 298
D. Traces of Astrobiological Time in Ancient Civilizations 302
ADOLF PORTMANN Time in the Life of the Organism [1951] 308
G. VAN DER LEEUW Primordial Time and Final Time [1949] 324
Time 325
Myth 328
Primordial Time 335
Eschatology 337
Creation 343
History 346
Final Time 348
Sacrament 349
Conclusion 350
APPENDICES
Biographical Notes 353
Contents of the Eranos-Jahrbucher 358
List of Abbreviations 369
INDEX 37I