The seven papers selected for this volume were originally delivered in 1972 at the Eranos conference in Ascona, Switzerland, under the general theme of “The Realms of Colour.” Between 1933 and 1988, scholars from the fields of psychology, religion, anthropology, and science gathered there annually to discuss their research and exchange ideas. Henry Corbin characterized Eranos as “the meeting of acting, autonomous individualities, each in complete freedom revealing and expressing his original and personal way of thinking and being outside of all dogmatism and all academicism.
Gershom Scholem, Henry Corbin, René Huyghe, Ernst Benz, Dominique Zahan, Toshihiko Izutsu, and Adolf Portmann examine color as biological meaning, carrier of value, and expression of the soul. This revised and expanded edition includes, for the first time in English translation, Scholem’s paper on “Colors and their Symbolism in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism” and Corbin’s paper on “The Realism and Symbolism of Colors in Shiite Cosmology.”
Gershom Scholem, Henry Corbin, René Huyghe, Ernst Benz, Dominique Zahan, Toshihiko Izutsu, and Adolf Portmann examine color as biological meaning, carrier of value, and expression of the soul. This revised and expanded edition includes, for the first time in English translation, Scholem’s paper on “Colors and their Symbolism in Jewish Tradition and Mysticism” and Corbin’s paper on “The Realism and Symbolism of Colors in Shiite Cosmology.”
