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Bollingen volume 64
Language
English
Description
One of this century's leading works on Zen, this book is a valuable source for those wishing to understand its concepts in the context of Japanese life and art. In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes what Zen is, how it evolved, and how its emphasis on primitive simplicity and self-effacement have helped to shape an aesthetics found throughout Japanese culture. He explores the surprising role of Zen in the philosophy of the samurai,...
Author
Series
Bollingen volume 85
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1967-1984]
Language
English
85) The mythic image
Author
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Bollingen volume 100
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Author
Series
Bollingen volume 76
Language
English
Description
First published in 1951, this book soon became the standard work in the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. Writing as the founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Romanian eacute; migreacute;--scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) surveys the practice of Shamanism over two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the Shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia--where Shamanism was first observed--to North...
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Bollingen volume 97:2
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1979
Language
English
Author
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Bollingen volume 31
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
92) Answer to Job
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Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks volume 283
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Publisher description: Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique importance of his work lies rather in his discovery and treatment of religious, or potentially religious, factors in his investigation into the unconscious as a whole and in his general therapeutic practice. In Answer to Job, first published in Zurich in 1952, Jung employs the familiar language of theological discourse. Such terms as...
Author
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Bollingen volume 93
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
96) Sound and symbol
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Series
Bollingen volume 44
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1969-76, c1956-73.]
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of...
98) Novela/nivola
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Bollingen volume 85:6
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1976
Language
English
Author
Series
Bollingen volume 99
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1984
Language
English
Author
Series
Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks volume 427
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1977, c1956
Language
English
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