Author: C. G. Jung
Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to the psychology of alchemy. Here for the first time are Jung’s illuminating lectures on the psychology of yoga and meditation, delivered between 1938 and 1940, says a review on the Princeton University Press website.
In these lectures, Jung discusses the psychological technique of active imagination, seeking to find parallels with the meditative practices of different yogic and Buddhist traditions.
He draws on three texts to introduce his audience to Eastern meditation: Patañjali’s Yoga Sûtra, the Amitâyur-dhyâna-sûtra from Chinese Pure Land Buddhism, and the Shrî-chakra-sambhâra Tantra, a scripture related to tantric yoga.
Spring 2021
Don t be scared away by this book s academic title: Yes, Johns Hopkins Assistant Professor of English Jeanne-Marie Jackson knows her contemporary literary criticism, and you will run into allusions to and discussions of Dostoevsky, René Girard, Fredric Jameson, Immanuel Kant, Paul Virilio, and terms such as decolonizing, modernity, and subjectivity. In
The African Novel of Ideas (Princeton University Press), however, African literature and intellectual history specialist Jackson isn t applying these thinkers and terms in the service of understanding or interpreting the 20th-century African novels she explores. Instead, she s reading through these books and authors to consider, what if we looked at these texts as sources of
The importance of Arabic in the scholarly world, our experts agreed, needs to be recognized by bringing more of it to the wider conversation.
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‘So Many Discussions Going On’
In a program presented Tuesday (March 9) by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and
Publishing Perspectives, there was agreement among our expert panelists that the perception of there being too little representation of Arabic topics and Arabic writers’ work and research in world scholarship is accurate.
The factors that frame the situation, however, are complex. Certainly, there was agreement all around that the kind of value the Zayed Book Award and other such programs create particularly with translation of the highest quality work is essential. And what came out of the exchange was a clearer understanding of the need for earnest analysis and sustained effort to widen the presence and impact of Arabic on the international stage.
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UNE Center for Global Humanities presents ‘Not Born Yesterday: Why Humans Are Less Gullible Than We Think’
It is widely believed that people are gullible and, therefore, easily manipulated by demagogues, advertisers, and politicians. But, in fact, we are equipped with complex psychological mechanisms that allow us to effectively evaluate information and routinely reject false or harmful ideas.
So will argue scholar Hugo Mercier in an online lecture presented by the University of New England Center for Global Humanities when he presents “Not Born Yesterday: Why Humans Are Less Gullible Than We Think” on Monday, March 29 at 6 p.m.
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