Author: Jacques Barzun
Publisher: Bollingen
Keywords: series, bollingen, art, abuse
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1975-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0691018049
ISBN-13: 9780691018041

The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.

Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: New World Library
Keywords: series, bollingen, faces, thousand, hero
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2008-07-28
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1577315936
ISBN-13: 9781577315933

Originally written by Campbell in the ’40s-- in his pre-Bill Moyers days -- and famous as George Lucas’ inspiration for "Star Wars," this book will likewise inspire any writer or reader in its well considered assertion that while all stories have already been told, this is *not* a bad thing, since the *retelling* is still necessary. And while our own life’s journey must always be ended alone, the travel is undertaken in the company not only of immediate loved ones and primal passion, but of the heroes and heroines -- and myth-cycles -- that have preceded us.Since its release

Author: Mircea Eliade
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: vol, lvi, series, bollingen, immortality, freedom, yoga
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1970-04-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691017646
ISBN-13: 9780691017648

In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentratio

Author: Homer
Publisher: Bollingen
Keywords: bollingen, series, homerica, hymns, homeric, chapman
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-04-14
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0691136750
ISBN-13: 9780691136752

George Chapman’s translations of Homer--immortalized by Keats’s sonnet-- are the most famous in the English language. Swinburne praised their "romantic and sometimes barbaric grandeur," their "freshness, strength, and inextinguishable fire." And the great critic George Saintsbury wrote, "For more than two centuries they were the resort of all who, unable to read Greek, wished to know what the Greek was. Chapman is far nearer Homer than any modern translator in any modern language."This volume presents the original text of Chapman’s translation of the Homeric hymns. The hymns,

Author: C. G. Jung
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: works, bollingen, series, collected, 9ii, feminine, volumes, aspects
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1983-05-01
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0691018456
ISBN-13: 9780691018454

Extracted from Volumes 6, 7, 9, Parts I and II, 10 and 17. This collection offers a range of articles and extracts from Jung’s writings on marriage, Eros, the mother, the maiden, and the anima/animus concept. In the absence of any single formal statement by Jung on the psychology of women, this work conveys his views on the feminine and on topics that are intrinsic or related.

Author: Jan Bremmer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: series, world, mythology, bollingen, princeton, concept, soul, mythos, greek
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1987-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691101906
ISBN-13: 9780691101903

Jan Bremmer presents a provocative picture of the historical development of beliefs regarding the soul in ancient Greece. He argues that before Homer the Greeks distinguished between two types of soul, both identified with the individual: the free soul, which possessed no psychological attributes and was active only outside the body, as in dreams, swoons, and the afterlife; and the body soul, which endowed a person with life and consciousness. Gradually this concept of two kinds of souls was replaced by the idea of a single soul. In exploring Greek ideas of human souls as well as those of plan

Author: Anthony Stevens
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: bollingen, series, world, mythology, princeton, mythos, clue, guide, symbols, humankind, ariadne
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0691086613
ISBN-13: 9780691086613

Symbolism is the most powerful and ancient means of communication available to humankind. For centuries people have expressed their preoccupations and concerns through symbolism in the form of myths, stories, religions, and dreams. The meaning of symbols has long been debated among philosophers, antiquarians, theologians, and, more recently, anthropologists and psychologists. In Ariadne’s Clue, distinguished analyst and psychiatrist Anthony Stevens explores the nature of symbols and explains how and why we create the symbols we do. The book is divided into two parts: an interpretive sec