Eranos Conferences
A Recognized Phenomenon of 20th-Century Culture
Abstract
The Eranos Conferences, founded by Olga Froebe-Kapteyn, were a remarkable phenomenon of the 20th century. Over the course of several decades (from 1933), they brought together a multitude of leading researchers and scientists representing a range of fields such as psychology, cultural studies, oriental studies, theology, religious studies, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and philosophy. Significantly, these were not just separate, unbounded lectures, but a space for true confrontation of these disciplines in order to develop a common interpretation of the world and a synthesis of human knowledge. This synthesis was intended to offer the possibility of rediscovering the values of Western culture and grounding them, to integrate the subjective with the objective, and to provide the possibility of finding meaning for the individual. The goal that brought together scholars of such caliber as Carl Gustav Jung, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, Karl Kerényi, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin, Gershom Scholem, Leo Baeck, Erwin Schrödinger, Adolf Portmann, Joseph Campbell, Pierre Hadot, James Hillman, or Tadeus Reichstein, was not only purely scientific but also ethical. This remarkable initiative, as presented herein, was a philosophical phenomenon par excellence in the root sense of philosophy (as reconstructed in Pierre Hadot’s works): not only as an abstract field of knowledge but also as knowledge that can be applied to the life of each individual.
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