C.G. Jung and the Humanities: Toward a Hermeneutics of Culture [Hardcover]

Karin Barnaby (Author), Pellegrino D'Acierno (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1990

C. G. Jung has been and continues to be a pervasive yet often unacknowledged presence in twentieth-century art and intellectual life. This timely volume is the first comprehensive attempt to assess this presence and to demonstrate Jung's far-reaching cultural impact. The distinguished contributors represent a number of views, from traditional Jungian to the most contemporary post-Jungian stances, including feminist, non-Jungian, and anti-Jungian positions. Jung, as seen in this volume, addresses a wide range of contemporary issues related to creativity, gender, religion, popular culture, and hermeneutics. The essays reveal dimensions of his work that extend far beyond psychoanalytical theory and that show his hermeneutics to be a much more subtle and sophisticated methodology than previously allowed by his critics. This methodology appears, in fact, to have anticipated significant aspects of contemporary critical principles and practice. The contributors to the volume were among the participants in a major international conference sponsored by Hofstra University and the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York, held in 1986 at Hofstra University. They include Thomas Belmonte, Robert Bly, Joseph Campbell, Edward S. Casey, Stanley Diamond, Jean Erdman, Leslie Fiedler, James Hillman, Paul Kugler, Ibram Lassaw, Neil Levine, David L. Miller, Lucio Pozzi, Gilles Quispel, Robert Richenburg, Carol Schreier Rupprecht, Andrew Samuels, Harold Schechter, and June Singer.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 400 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr (February 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691086168
• ISBN-13: 978-0691086163
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #588,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Karin Barnaby was born in Austria to a Finnish mother and German father. She grew up on Long Island, NY. She has been a teacher, author, editor, conference director and coordinator, community volunteer, activist, arts supporter and softball coach. She is a mother, grandmother, tennis player, gardener, actor and choral singer.
Her literary tastes favor a really good story, as in Dickens, Tolstoy, Homer, Euripides, von Kleist, Hawthorne, Austen, Mann, Kafka, Vonnegut and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain. Favorite movies include To Kill a Mockingbird, Star Wars, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Raiders of the Lost Ark, In the Heat of the Night, Roman Holiday, Amarcord, 8½, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Bagdad Café, Run Lola Run, Lives of Others, The Reader, all the "Girl Who . . ." movies.