The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination
10 best books like The Philosophers’ Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination (Patrick Harpur): At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails, In the Dark Places of Wisdom, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self, Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman, The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World, The Caretakers of the Cosmos: Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World, Healing Dream and Ritual: Ancient Incubation & Modern Psychotherapy, A Little Course in Dreams, Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature’s Intelligence
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
| Author | Sarah Bakewell |
| ISBN | 0701186585 |
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointing to his drink, he says, 'You can make...
In the Dark Places of Wisdom
What we have here is an academic paper puffed into a book, written by one who does not respect his reader.
If one has the patience to wade through his tedious repetitions, condescensions, ax grinding, and self-congratulations, one is rewarded with the glimmer of a new idea. But that idea, recedes...
| Author | James Hillman |
| ISBN | 0446673714 |
Plato and the Greeks called it "daimon," the Romans "genius," the Christians "guardian angel." Today we use the terms heart, spirit, and soul. To James Hillman, the acknowledged intellectual source for Thomas Moore's bestselling sensation Care of the Soul, it is the central and guiding force of his...
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0199266840 |
Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic,...
Imaginal Love: The Meanings of Imagination in Henry Corbin and James Hillman
Corbin’s work on the role of imagination in the religions and its fundamental place in human life has had a lasting and wide-ranging influence on contemporary poetry and the humanities. Among his most influential readers were the poets Charles Olson and Robert Duncan and the archetypal psychologist...
The Thought of the Heart and the Soul of the World
| Author | James Hillman |
| ISBN | 0882143530 |
Two groundbreaking essays, "The Thought of the Heart" and "Anima Mundi: The Return of the Soul to the World," by James Hillman that launched Archetypal Psychology and began the renaissance of a psychology that returns psychic reality to the world. Following Marsilio Ficino, who was the first to place...
The Caretakers of the Cosmos: Living Responsibly in an Unfinished World
| Author | Gary Lachman |
| ISBN | 1782500022 |
Why are we here? Human beings have asked themselves this question for centuries. Modern science largely argues that human beings are chance products of a purposeless universe, but other traditions believe humanity has an essential role and responsibility in creation.
Lachman brings together...
Healing Dream and Ritual: Ancient Incubation & Modern Psychotherapy
| Author | Carl Alfred Meier |
| ISBN | 3856306293 |
C. A. Meier investigates the ancient Greek understanding of dreams and dreaming, Antique incubation and concomitant rituals. In this greatly expanded version of his classic work, Ancient Incubation and Modern Psychotherapy, Meier compares Asklepian divine medicine with our own contemporary...
A Little Course in Dreams
| Author | Robert Bosnak |
| ISBN | 1570623864 |
This is a hands-on manual for anyone who is interested in dreams. At the same time, it is the story of a personal journey through the dream world by the author and several of his patients and students. Robert Bosnak offers exercises and strategies for studying dreams, including:
- Remembering...
Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature’s Intelligence
| Author | David Fideler |
| ISBN | 1620553597 |
Humanity’s creative role within the living pattern of nature
• Explores important scientific discoveries that reveal the self-organizing intelligence at the heart of nature
• Examines the idea of a living cosmos from its roots in the earliest cultures, to its eclipse during...
Anima: An Anatomy of a Personified Notion
| Author | James Hillman |
| ISBN | 0882143166 |
With 439 excerpts from the writings of C.G. Jung. "This excursion is intended to supplement the main literature on the anima. Since that literature provides a goodly phenomenology of the experience of anima, I shall look here more closely at the rather neglected phenomenology of the notion of anima....
Sueños reúne textos en prosa de la época de Biel (1913-1920) que Robert Walser no incluyó en sus libros editados, así como relatos y fragmentos inéditos o publicados por primera vez en libro. En sus relatos idílicos y ensoñaciones, en sus retratos e historias simbólicos, en su manojo de recuerdos...
A Secret History of Consciousness
| Author | Gary Lachman |
| ISBN | 1584200111 |
For the last four centuries, science has tried to account for everything in terms of atoms and molecules and the physical laws they adhere to. Recently, this effort was extended to try to include the inner world of human beings. Gary Lachman argues that this view of consciousness is misguided and unfounded....
Como un juego, el autor de una aclamada primera novela decide transcribir los apuntes de sus cuadernos acumulados durante años, los mismos que ha tardado en concluir lo que será su anunciada segunda novela. En ellos encontramos brillantes aforismos, apuntes filosóficos y confesiones repletas...
The Secret Teachers of the Western World
| Author | Gary Lachman |
| ISBN | 0399166807 |
This epic study unveils the esoteric masters who have covertly impacted the intellectual development of the West, from Pythagoras and Zoroaster to the little-known modern icons Jean Gebser and Schwaller de Lubicz.
Running alongside the mainstream of Western intellectual history there...
Lost Knowledge of the Imagination
The ability to imagine is at the heart of what makes us human. Through our imagination we experience more fully the world both around us and within us. Imagination plays a key role in creativity and innovation.
Until the seventeenth century, the human imagination was celebrated. Since then, with...
| Author | Peter Kingsley |
| ISBN | 1999638409 |
Catafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnostic and prophet for our time.
This book is the first major re-imagining of both Jung and his work since the publication of the Red Book in 2009--and is the only serious assessment of them written...
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: The Reader as Metaphor
| Author | Alberto Manguel |
| ISBN | 0812245237 |
As far as one can tell, human beings are the only species for which the world seems made up of stories, Alberto Manguel writes. We read the book of the world in many guises: we may be travelers, advancing through its pages like pilgrims heading toward enlightenment. We may be recluses, withdrawing through...
