Eranos Yearbook 71

2012

Edited by Fabio Merlini and Riccardo Bernardini

416 pages, color illustrations, ISBN 978-3-85630-754-7, Eranos Yearbooks

The 71st volume of the Eranos Yearbooks, Beyond Masters – Spaces Without Thresholds, presents the work of the activities at the Eranos Foundation in 2012. The book gathers the lectures organized on the theme of the 2012 Eranos Conference, “On the Threshold – Disorientation and New Forms of Space” together with the talks given on the occasion of the 2012 Eranos-Jung Lectures seminar cycle, on the topic, “The Eclipse of the Masters?” This volume includes essays by Valerio Adami, Stephen Aizenstat, Claudio Bonvecchio, Michael Engelhard, Adriano Fabris, Maurizio Ferraris, Mauro Guindani, Nikolaus Koliusis, Fabio Merlini, Bernardo Nante, Fausto Petrella, Gian Piero Quaglino, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini, Amelia Valtolina, and Marco Vozza.

Each lecture is reproduced in the language in which it was presented: 12 essays in Italian, 3 in English, and 2 in German.

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Contents

Preface / Prefazione    9

The Board of the Eranos Foundation / Il Consiglio di Fondazione Eranos    20

Acknowledgements / Ringraziamenti    21

Presentations of the Eranos Conference
On the Threshold – Disorientation and New Forms of Space
Presentazioni del Convegno di Eranos
Sulla soglia. Disorientamento e nuove forme dello spazio
Eranos & Monte Verità, Ascona 6-8 September / settembre 2012

Schizotopie e disorientamento. Per una filosofia degli odierni spazi di vita
Fabio Merlini    25

La sfida della soglia
Claudio Bonvecchio    41

On the Threshold of the Law. Paradoxes and Metaphors in Kafka’s Work
Adriano Fabris    79

Abitare la soglia?
Gian Piero Quaglino    89

Che dire del disegno?
Valerio Adami    143

Topografie della soglia. Sulla scrittura di Yoko Tawada
Amelia Valtolina    162

Il dentro, il fuori, la soglia: un apologo psicoanalitico
Fausto Petrella    178

Alla ricerca della soglia perduta
Bernardo Nante    185

The Dangers and Opportunity of Cyberspace: A New Vision of Global Dreaming
Stephen Aizenstat    218

Presentations of the Eranos-Jung Lectures
The Eclipse of the Masters?
Presentazioni delle Eranos-Jung Lectures
Eclissi dei maestri?
Monte Verità, Ascona 2012

Caduta e rinascita della figura del Maestro nel mondo attuale.
Una lettura a partire da Il Libro Rosso di C.G. Jung
Bernardo Nante    239

Derrimaître
Maurizio Ferraris    267

Di là dalla siepe: spazi leopardiani.
Un tentativo di dialogo tra due lingue e due diverse percezioni della realtà poetica intorno a uno dei più grandi maestri della cultura italiana
Mauro Guindani    279

L’infinito
Michael Engelhard    282

L’infinito
Nikolaus Koliusis    300

The Nameless Dao: Laozi and Quantum Physics
Shantena Augusto Sabbadini    308

Attualità di un pensatore inattuale: il caso Nietzsche
Marco Vozza    323

Dove sono i Maestri?
Fabio Merlini    343

Authors’ Biographies / Biografie degli autori    358

List of Eranos Yearbooks / Elenco degli Annali di Eranos, 1933-2012    367

List of Eranos Lectures and Contributions
Elenco delle conferenze e dei contributi di Eranos, 1933-2012    377

The Greek word ‘Eranos’ means a ‘banquet’, to which every guest contributes. From 1933 onwards, the Eranos Conferences took shape in Ascona-Moscia (Switzerland), springing from the idea of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn to create a ‘Meeting Place of East and West’. Under the influence of the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung and other prominent leaders of that era, the Eranos Conferences found their way towards symbolical, archetypal, and mythological motifs. The Eranos gathering is symbolized by its famous Round Table, the image and meaning of which inspired many of the leading thinkers of the 20th century. For more than 70 years, depth psychologists, philosophers, theologians, orientalists, historians of religions as well as natural scientists find at Eranos a unique place where they could meet and exchange views. The rich collection of Eranos Yearbooks bears testimony to an immense and original work accomplished in various fields of learning.

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In 1933 in a secluded villa on the mountainous shore of Lago Maggiore, in Ascona, Switzerland, a group of scholars, organized by the inspired Olga Fröebe-Kapteyn, gathered around C. G. Jung to discuss the research topics they were involved in whether in psychology, religion, anthropology, or the classics. At this conference, the first of the Eranos Conferences or in German, Tagung, a unique tradition was born. And the Eranos Conferences have continued up to this day. They have united some of the most unusual thinkers and personalities of this century with the in-depth research of lesser known scholars. Until this day the Conferences continue to provide a fertile opportunity for meetings and creative discussions. Over the years the Eranos Conferences have become famous for their diversity and breadth of humanistic content. Focusing on general humanist topics, the Conferences often bring to the forefront of discussion Eastern philosophies and religions little known to the West, or cutting edge scientific theories. Over the years the Eranos Conferences have produced over six hundred original works, published in sixty-six volumes of Eranos Yearbooks. Because through the years Eranos has stood for off main-stream thinking and research, today, due to its international and innovative potential, it holds the promise of a substantial contribution to mankind.

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