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Letters for Olson Edited by Benjamin Hollander, New York: Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2016
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Das Rote Buch: C.G. Jung's Reise zum "Anderen Pol der Welt" ed. Thomas Arzt, Studien zur Analytische Psychologie Band 5, Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2015
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Prologue-On Mystery By chance not long ago I ran across the opening passage of Giorgio Agamben's ... more Prologue-On Mystery By chance not long ago I ran across the opening passage of Giorgio Agamben's recent book The Fire and the Fable and I want to read it to you as an introduction to what we will think about today. At the end of his book on Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem tells the following story, which he learned from Yosef Agnon: When the Baal Schem, the founder of Hasidism, had a difficult task before him, he would go to a certain place in the woods, light a fire and meditate in prayer; and what he had set out to perform was done. When a generation later, the Maggid of Meseritz was faced with the same task, he would go to the same place in the woods, and say: We can no longer light a fire, but we can pray. And everything happened according to his will. When another generation had passed, Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov was faced with the same task, [and] he would go to the same place in the woods, and say: "We can no longer light a fire, nor do we know the secret meditations belonging to the prayers, but we know the place in the woods, and that can be sufficient." And sufficient it was. But when another generation had passed and Rabbi Israel of Rishin was called upon to perform the task, he sat down in his golden chair, in his castle, and said: "We cannot light the fire, we cannot speak the prayers, we do not know the place, but we can tell the story of all this." And, once again, this was sufficient. 2 Agamben comments, It is possible to read this anecdote as an allegory of literature. In the course of its history, humanity moves further and further away from the sources of mystery and, little by little, loses the memory of what tradition taught it about the fire, the place, and the formula—but of all this men can still tell the story. What remains of mystery is literature, and "that can be sufficient," the rabbi comments with a smile. The meaning of this 'can be sufficient' is, however, not easy to grasp, and perhaps the destiny of literature depends precisely on how we understand it. 3 1
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Ce livre est une introduction claire et efficace à la pensée de Henry Corbin. Il ne s’agit pas ... more Ce livre est une introduction claire et efficace à la pensée de Henry Corbin. Il ne s’agit pas d’un livre académique sur sa philosophie, mais bien d’une initiation aux différentes idées composant son œuvre. L’importance et l’actualité des ouvrages de Henry Corbin sont indéniables. Le remarquable travail de synthèse de Tom Cheetham s’emploie à nous faire pénétrer toutes les facettes de cette œuvre immense, érudite et d’une grande profondeur ; il peut ainsi toucher un large public. Ce qu’il nous dévoile, c’est le niveau invisible, mais bien réel, de notre « acte d’être », de notre présence au monde, spirituel et matériel, invoquant les traditions - notamment celle de la spiritualité islamique - pour lesquelles « esprit » et « matière » sont deux faces d’une même réalité. À travers l’œuvre de Henry Corbin, Tom Cheetham entreprend de conjurer le matérialisme et le nihilisme ambiants, aussi bien que toutes les formes d’« ismes » qui s’affrontent : radicalismes, totalitarismes, dogmatismes, etc. Là seulement, en rejoignant ce niveau de conscience où s’intègrent philosophies, religions et ésotérismes, pourra s’établir ce dialogue des civilisations auquel Corbin aspirait et sans lequel notre avenir serait compromis.
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