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Explores how Jung's opinion on Nietzsche changes and develops throughout Jung's life
Discusses the figure of 'Christ' and Nietzsche's and Jung's understandings of the 'death of God'
Offers a close reading of the Red Book in the light of Jung’s later seminar on Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores C.G. Jung's complex relationship with Friedrich Nietzsche through the lens of the so-called 'visionary' literary tradition. The book connects Jung's experience of the posthumously published Liber Novus (The Red Book) with his own (mis)understanding of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, and formulates the hypothesis of Jung considering Zarathustra as Nietzsche's Liber Novus –– both works being regarded by Jung as 'visionary' experiences. After exploring some 'visionary' authors often compared by Jung to Nietzsche (Goethe, Hölderlin, Spitteler, F. T. Vischer), the book focuses upon Nietzsche and Jung exclusively. It analyses stylistic similarities, as well as explicit references to Nietzsche and Zarathustra in Liber Novus, drawing on Jung's annotations in his own copy of Zarathustra. The book then uses Liber Novus as a prism to contextualize and understand Jung's five-year seminar on Zarathustra: all the nuances of Jung's interpretation of Zarathustra can be fully explained, only when compared with Liber Novus and its symbology. One of the main topics of the book concerns the figure of 'Christ' and Nietzsche's and Jung's understandings of the 'death of God.'
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University College London, London, UK
Gaia Domenici
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Gaia Domenici is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University College London, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Jung's Nietzsche
Book Subtitle: Zarathustra, The Red Book, and “Visionary” Works
Authors: Gaia Domenici
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17670-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17669-3Published: 09 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17672-3Published: 09 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17670-9Published: 29 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 250
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Comparative Literature, History of Psychology