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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.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hakl, Hans Thomas, author.
Contributor:
McIntosh, Christopher, translator.
Tilton, Hereward, contributor.
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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