Eranos Yearbook 75: 2019–2020–2021

Life, Individual, Community, and the Thought of the Absolute: Unsurpassable Passions

Edited by Fabio Merlini and Riccardo Bernardini

1324 pages, color illustrations, ISBN 978-3-85630-790-5

The 75th volume of the Eranos Yearbooks, Life, Individual, Community, and the Thought of the Absolute: Unsurpassable Passions, presents to the public the work of the last three years of activities at the Eranos Foundation (2019–2020–2021). The book gathers the lectures presented at the occasion of the 2019 Eranos Conference, The Names of the Absolute. Cultures and Eras in the Presence of the Fundament: Myth, Religion, Philosophy, Science, the 2020 Eranos Conference, Rebirth: Life Threatened and the Passion for Life, and the 2021 Eranos Conference, Ties. Form and Destiny of Relationships in the Age of Self-Referentiality: The Challenge of the Community to Rediscover, the 2019 Eranos-Jung Lectures, Politics and Techniques of Fear. The Shadow in the Era of the Crisis of Civilization, between Projection and Manipulation, the 2020 Eranos-Jung Lectures, Hope and Crisis of the Future. Individual, Community, and Environment facing the Disillusionment with Progress, the 2021 Eranos-Jung Lectures, Meditations on Freedom. Autonomy in the Mirror of Vulnerability, between Paranoia and Responsibility, the 2018–2019 Eranos School seminars, Mundaneum: East and West in the Global World, and the 2021 Eranos School seminar, Bond, Solitude, and Digital Sociality: Freud and Jung One Hundred Years Later. The volume includes essays by Claudia Baracchi, Riccardo Bernardini, Matteo Bonazzi, Gianfranco Bonola, Giuseppe Cambiano, Pascal Chabot, Hervé Clerc, Dimitri D’Andrea, Adriano Fabris, Franco Ferrari, Barbara Gallavotti, Federico Leoni, Enrica Lisciani-Petrini, Romano Màdera, Grazia Shōgen Marchianò, Jean-Luc Marion, Giacomo Marramao, Fabio Merlini, Roberto Mordacci, Gianfranco Pasquino, Paolo Perulli, Stefano Poggi, Gian Piero Quaglino, Rocco Ronchi, Sandro Rusconi, Heyong Shen, Davide Susanetti, Silvano Tagliagambe, Davide Tarizzo, Sarantis Thanopulos, Matteo Vegetti, Silvia Vegetti Finzi, Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, Vana Xenou, Wenzhi Zhang, Paolo Zellini, and Luigi Zoja.

Contents

    Preface / Prefazione

    The Board of the Eranos Foundation / Il Consiglio della Fondazione Eranos

    Acknowledgments / Ringraziamenti

Presentations of the Eranos Conference
The Names of the Absolute. Cultures and Eras in the Presence
of the Fundament: Myth, Religion, Philosophy, Science

Presentazioni del Convegno di Eranos
I nomi dell’Assoluto. Culture ed epoche al cospetto
by del fondamento: mito, religione, filosofia, scienza

Casa Eranos, Ascona, 4–7 September / settembre 2019

    Al di là dei nomi e del pensiero: Platone di fronte all’indicibile e all’ineffabile by Franco Ferrari

    Pourquoi Éleusis aujourd’hui ? De la mélancolie à la vision by Vana Xenou

    L’infinito del continuo e la realtà del discreto by Paolo Zellini

    I nomi dell’Assoluto e la rottura spontanea della simmetria by Silvano Tagliagambe

    I volti mutevoli dell’Assoluto: una storia infinita
tessuta nella stoffa della mente umana by Grazia Shōgen Marchianò

    Les noms de l’absolu (un tour d’horizon) by Hervé Clerc

Presentations of the Eranos Conference
Rebirth. Life Threatened and the Passion for Life

Presentazioni del Convegno di Eranos Rinascere.
La vita minacciata e la passione della vita

Casa Eranos, Ascona, 3–5 September / settembre 2020

    L’eterno circolo della vita e la rinascita dello spirito. Germania 1880-1920 by Stefano Poggi

    La morale della Vita: all’incrocio di biologia e biopolitica by Davide Tarizzo

    Il riaccendersi della fiamma. La dottrina buddhista della rinascita
nel suo impianto classico ed alcune successive metamorfosi by Gianfranco Bonola

    Le rythme comme sagesse de la vie by Jean-Jacques Wunenburger

Presentations of the Eranos Conference
Ties. Form and Destiny of Relationships in the Age of Self-Referentiality: The Challenge of the Community to Rediscover

Presentazioni del Convegno di Eranos
Legàmi. Forma e destino delle relazioni nell’epoca dell’autoreferenzialità: la sfida della comunità da riscoprire

Casa Eranos, Ascona, 9–11 September / settembre 2021

    Peter Anton Miescher (1923-2020). Ricordando un grande uomo di scienza,
medicina, cultura e generosità by Sandro Rusconi

    Peter Anton Miescher (1923-2020). Remembering A Great Man of Science,
Medicine, Culture, and Generosity by Sandro Rusconi

    In memoriam Elena Pulcini (1950-2021) by Adriano Fabris

    Individualismo della singolarità e democrazia post-sovrana by Dimitri D’Andrea

    Face aux mutations, les liens subtils by Pascal Chabot

    Individuo e comunità in Platone e Aristotele by Giuseppe Cambiano

    Le bien commun : du politique à la communion by Jean-Luc Marion

Presentations of the Eranos-Jung Lectures
Politics and Techniques of Fear. The Shadow in the Era of the Crisis of Civilization, between Projection and Manipulation

Presentazioni delle Eranos-Jung Lectures
Politiche e tecniche della paura. L’Ombra nell’epoca della crisi della civiltà, tra proiezione e manipolazione

Monte Verità, Ascona, 2019

    Paura e potere by Enrica Lisciani-Petrini

    Libertà e paura. Metafisica del populismo by Rocco Ronchi

    La paura del diverso by Luigi Zoja

    Contro la paura. Considerazioni platoniche e iniziatiche by Davide Susanetti

Presentations of the Eranos-Jung Lectures
Hope and Crisis of the Future. Individual, Community,
and Environment facing the Disillusionment with Progress

Presentazioni delle Eranos-Jung Lectures
Speranza e crisi del futuro. Individuo, comunità e ambiente
di fronte al disincanto del progresso

Monte Verità, Ascona, 2020

    In che cosa dobbiamo sperare by Gian Piero Quaglino

    La creatività materna come promessa di futuro by Silvia Vegetti Finzi

    Rinnovare lo spirito dell’utopia ripensando il dono della tradizione by Romano Màdera

    Futuro come utopia permanente by Roberto Mordacci

Presentations of the Eranos-Jung Lectures
Meditations on Freedom. Autonomy in the Mirror
of Vulnerability, between Paranoia and Responsibility

Presentazioni delle Eranos-Jung Lectures
Meditazioni sulla libertà. L’autonomia allo specchio
della vulnerabilità, tra paranoia e responsabilità

Monte Verità, Ascona, 2021

    Il grande prigioniero. Libertà, limite e i confini della psyche by Claudia Baracchi

    La libertà nella stretta della pandemia by Barbara Gallavotti

    Libertà e scambio paritario tra differenze by Sarantis Thanopulos

    La libertà, le libertà (degli altri) by Gianfranco Pasquino

Presentations of the Eranos School Seminar
Mundaneum: East and West in the Global World

Presentazioni del seminario della Scuola di Eranos
Mundaneum: Oriente e Occidente nel mondo globale

Monte Verità, Ascona,
13 October / ottobre 2018 – 19 October / ottobre 2019

    Il Nodo di Gordio nel mondo globale by Matteo Vegetti

    Orienti e Occidenti. L’Europa tra sovranismi e sfide globali by Giacomo Marramao

    Il capitalismo tra Occidente e Oriente by Paolo Perulli

    Occident and Orient, the Knot, the Mean, and the Heart:
A Perspective from the Psychology of the Heart by Heyong Shen

    The Philosophy of the Yijing (Classic of Changes):
A Possible Approach to Undoing the Knot between China and the Western World by Wenzhi Zhang

Presentations of the Eranos School Seminar
Bond, Solitude, and Digital Sociality:
Freud and Jung One Hundred Years Later

Presentazioni del seminario della Scuola di Eranos
Legame, solitudine e socialità digitale:
Freud e Jung cento anni dopo

Monte Verità, Ascona, 26 November / novembre 2021

    Oggetto e ideale nell’orizzonte del legame contemporaneo by Matteo Bonazzi

    Massa scopica e massa tattile by Federico Leoni

    I Tipi psicologici fra tradizione, controversie e modernità by Riccardo Bernardini

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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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