Basil Bunting's Persian Translations Reviewed

War Elephants & Pious Cats

Henry Corbin and Russian Religious Thought by Hadi Fakhoury

I am excited and delighted to be able to present here the full text of Hadi Fakhoury's master's thesis. It is a remarkable piece of scholarship and an immensely important contribution to our understanding of Corbin's thought. It is truly essential reading for everyone with an interest in Corbin's work. I came away from it with a far deeper grasp of what Corbin was up to and of the origins and the development of his thought. I look forward to the publication of this superb work and to whatever comes next from Fakhoury's powerful pen.

Henry Corbin and Russian Religious Thought

Hadi Fakhoury

Institute of Islamic Studies

McGill University, Montreal

Henry Corbin and Russian Religious Thought Hadi Fakhoury

Hafez on PBS

The works of 14th century Persian poet Hafez are iconic in Iran. Poet and scholar Dick Davis has spent years bringing the medieval writer's words to the West. Jeffrey Brown talks to Davis about his experiences with Persian culture, the challenges of translating and his new book, "Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz."

HERE

A Blog Worth Watching

Andreas Sommer's 

FORBIDDEN HISTORIES

Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. 

Hakl, Hans Thomas.

Sheffield: Equinox, 2013

"This is the most balanced and well-informed history of the Eranos Conferences where, once a year, some of the most provocative thinkers of the world gathered to discuss the most pressing issues of the times: religious symbolism, the nature of spirit, art and creativity, utopia, language, norms in a changing world, pluralism ... Eranos represents an important counterpart to the dominant spiritual and intellectual history of the twentieth century precisely because it encouraged thinking and living at the radical edge." David L. Miller, Syracuse University

Gemistos Plethon

The Philosophy of Gemistos Plethon

Platonism in Late Byzantium, between Hellenism and Orthodoxy

Advance Notice of an Important Publication

ERANOS—ITS MAGICAL PAST AND ALLURING FUTURE: 

THE SPIRIT OF A WONDROUS PLACE

Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, Vol. 92

Publication Date: Winter 2014

Editor-in-Chief, Nancy Cater, J.D., Ph.D. 

Guest Editor: Riccardo Bernardini, Scientific Secretary, Eranos Foundation

On Platonic Theology

The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti) and the Istitutio Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento (Florence, 26-27 April 2007) for J. B. Michael Allen, ed. James Hankins and Fabrizio Meroi (Firenze: Olschki, 2013)

The Rebirth of Platonic Theology: Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Harvard University Center for I... by Tom Cheetham

Conférences publiques 2014
"Liberté et contrainte dans les sociétés musulmanes"

Christian Jambet, directeur d’études, EPHE
La liberté spirituelle en islam et l’interprétation de “Pas de contrainte en  religion”

Mardi 7 janvier 2014

18h-20h

Amphithéâtre François Furet, 105 bd Raspail, 75006 Paris (M° Saint-Placide ou Notre-Dame-des-champs)

Entrée libre

Dans l’esprit et la lettre des théologies majoritaires en islam, la liberté de l’homme est inséparable de la Loi et du décret divin. On montrera que les formes de la liberté consistent non à s’abstraire de l’ordre divin intégral, mais à se rendre, en quelque façon, semblable à Celui qui l’instaure, par une démarche intérieure et spirituelle. On prendra l’exemple de l’interprétation de la phrase fameuse, présente dans le Coran (2, 256), “Pas de contrainte en religion”, par le grand philosophe Mullâ Sadrâ, et l’on s’interrogera sur le sens, pour le destin de l’islam, de la distinction entre une liberté intérieure, perfection de l’âme, et une liberté extérieure à la Loi, jugée illicite ou illusoire.

Modérateur : Bernard Heyberger, directeur d’études EHESS, directeur de l’IISMM-EHESS

Remarkable Online Course on Alchemical Psychology

Alchemy Course with Bosnak & Berry

The Habit of Mysticism

Ibn Tufayl, Avicenna & Hayy Ibn Yaqzan discussed in

Getting Used to God: Augustinian and 

Avicennian Approaches to the Habit of 

Mysticism

Daniel J. Gillis

Full Text Here

‘In the Karbala of his heart, it may happen that the powers of the carnal soul kill the intellect and the angelic companions who assist it, and uproot all traces of them from man’s heart. Then indeed there is accomplished in each one of us, word for word, the ta’wīl of the tragedy of Karbala.”  - Henry Corbin, (Temple and Contemplation, 46)  See the essay in Isma'ili Gnosis HERE.

James Hillman Celebration in Dallas

James Hillman's Archetypal Psychology December 7th, 2013   James Hillman (b. 1926 - d. 2011) was a pioneering psychologist whose imaginative psychology has entered cultural history, affecting lives and minds in a wide range of fields. He is considered the originator of Archetypal Psychology. Along with Donald Cowan, Joanne Stroud, Robert Sardello, and Gail Thomas, he co-founded the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture in 1980. During his lifetime, Hillman became an internationally recognized scholar of Jungian and Post-Jungian thinking, leaving us the legacy of his writings, and as the father of Archetypal Psychology, he is celebrated as one of the most radical critics and innovators of contemporary culture. Register online here.    For more information call 214-871-2440 or go online at dallasinstitute.org

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