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Eranos : an alternative intellectual history of the twentieth century / Hans Thomas Hakl ; translated by Christopher McIntosh ; with the collaboration of Hereward Tilton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hakl, Hans Thomas, author.
- Series:
- English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--History--20th century.
- Religion.
- Spiritualism (Philosophy)--History--20th century.
- Spiritualism (Philosophy).
- Occultism--History--20th century.
- Occultism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (457 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- A detailed account of a vital incubator for global humanism.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How This Book Emerged
- 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 19, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-9478-7
- OCLC:
- 1394872577
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