Eranos

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Eranos (Greek ἔρανος ) referred to an association in ancient Greece that makes contributions to a specific purpose, e.g. B. for ransom from captivity or slavery, payment of a fine or for a common feast. Eranos was also the name of the property collected and the purpose of the collection (e.g. payment).

In the Odyssey, Homer used ἔρανος to denote a simple, ordinary meal with regular participants who made their contribution (Od. 1, 226).

The έρανος in today's Greek means a specific donation collection or fundraising campaign .

Eranos Association

In the classical Athenian democracy , the Eranos Association provided from the 6th century BC. Chr. Represents an independent legal person. The association had the function of a credit association and was set up according to the statutes for the supply of needy people. Economic historians therefore see it as a prototype of the insurance industry. The Eranos Association comprised provisions of personal, procedural and property law. In addition, he had active and passive procedural law, i.e. that is, he could sue and be sued.

Eranos meetings

The Eranos conferences live from the gifts brought by their conference guests. These gifts are scientific contributions from very different subject areas on a predetermined topic. The conferences have been held in Ascona (Switzerland) on Monte Verità and on the shores of Lake Maggiore since 1933 . The Eranos conferences were initiated by Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn as a meeting place for Eastern and Western religion and spirituality. In the following years they became famous for the diversity of their contributions and their humanistic themes. Scientists from different disciplines live and eat together for ten days, which creates a conducive atmosphere for productive discussion of the speeches given.

Eranos yearbooks

Based on the conferences, the Eranos yearbooks have been published since 1933 with contributions in German, English and Italian, edited by Daniel Brody . The title of the first volume was Yoga and Meditation in the East and in the West . CG Jung was a regular participant until 1961, who, like many other speakers, significantly developed or further developed his theories at the Eranos conferences through discourse (e.g. with Karl Kerényi and Mircea Eliade ). It was here that Jung met Paul Mellon's wife , who persuaded her husband to make donations to spread Jung's ideas in the United States. This circle also included Erich Neumann , Gershom Scholem , Adolf Portmann , Herbert Read , and Joseph Campbell . The latter took care of the distribution of articles from the Eranos yearbooks in the USA from 1954. Important speakers (also from more recent times) were Erich Neumann , Heinrich Zimmer , Gustav Richard Heyer , Karl Löwith , Henry Corbin , Eric Voegelin , Jean Gebser , Annemarie Schimmel , Jan Assmann , Erwin Schrödinger , David Carrasco, Moshe Idel , Ilya Prigogine , George Steiner , Walter Haug , Harald Szeemann , Shizuteru Ueda , Tilo Schabert, Reinhold Merkelbach .

Eranos Vindobonensis

The Eranos Vindobonensis has been organizing lectures and lectures at the Institute for Classical Philology at the University of Vienna since 1876, also in line with the Eranos concept , which promote the exchange of knowledge and experience in the field of classical studies. The current president (2015) of Eranos Vindobonensis is Danuta Shanzer .

literature

  • Hans Thomas Hakl : Eranos. Navel of the world. Link of the golden chain. The alternative intellectual history. 2nd, significantly expanded edition. scientia nova Verlag Neue Wissenschaft, Gaggenau 2015, ISBN 978-3-935164-06-1 .
  • Riccardo Bernardini: Jung a Eranos. Il progetto della psicologia complessa. FrancoAngeli, Milan 2011, ISBN 978-88-568-3449-9 .
  • Elisabetta Barone, Matthias Riedl, Alexandra Tischel (eds.): Pioneers, poets, professors. Eranos and Monte Veritá in the history of civilization in the 20th century. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2004, ISBN 3-8260-2252-1 .
  • Gian Piero Quaglino, Augusto Romano, Riccardo Bernardini (eds.): Carl Gustav Jung a Eranos 1933-1952. Antigone Edizioni, Turin 2007, ISBN 978-88-95283-13-5 .
  • Steven M. Wasserstrom: Religion after religion. Gershom Scholem, Mircea Eliade, and Henry Corbin at Eranos. Princeton University Press, Princeton 1999, ISBN 0-691-00539-7 .
  • Tilo Schabert: Une herméneutique intercivilisatrice: L'École d'Eranos. In: Nicolas Weill (Ed.): Existe-il une Europe philosophique? Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, pp. 297-302.
  • Tilo Schabert: The Eranos Experience. In: Pioneers, Poets, Professors. Pp. 9-19 ( online ).
  • Tilo Schabert: In the Fading of Divine Voices: The Song of Eranos. In: Tilo Schabert, Matthias Riedl (ed.): God or Gods? - God or Gods? Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009, pp. 181–188 ( online ).
  • Tilo Schabert: On the recent history of the Eranos-Tagungen. From Olga Froebe-Kapteyn to the Amici di Eranos. In: Matthias Riedl, Tilo Schabert (Hrsg.): The City: Axis and Center of the World / The City: Axis and Center of the World. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011, pp. 133-142 ( online ).
  • Tilo Schabert: Things Turned Into Sounds: The Eranosean Hermeneutics. In: Tilo Schabert (Ed.): The Eranos Movement. A Story of Hermeneutics. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, pp. 9–56.
  • Eranos. New episode, ed. by T. Schabert, G. Zarone, Vol. 1–8, Fink Verlag, Munich, 1993 ff., Vol. 9 - Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2002 ff. - Vol. 13: Tilo Schabert , Matthias Riedl (Ed. ): Humans at War, at Peace with Nature. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3392-2 . - Vol. 14: Matthias Riedl, Tilo Schabert (eds.): Religionen - die religious experience - Religions - the religious experience. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2008. - Vol. 15: Tilo Schabert, Matthias Riedl (eds.): Gott oder Götter - God or Gods? Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2009. - Vol. 16: Matthias Riedl, Tilo Schabert (Eds.): The City: Axis and Center of the World / The City: Axis and Center of the World. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2011; Vol. 17: Tilo Schabert (Ed.): The Eranos Movement. A Story of Hermeneutics. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-5855-4 .
  • Urs Hafner: Money and Spirit and Discord. The legendary Eranos conferences face an uncertain future. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 6, 2007.
  • Kaj Noschis: Monte Verità. Ascona et le génie du lieu. Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne 2011, ISBN 978-28-8074-909-5 .

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  1. ↑ And the honorable conductress came and served the bread / And many of the dishes from what she had collected. (Homer: Odyssey. 1st song ( online at zeno.org ))
  2. ↑ see Dictionary
  3. ↑ Albert Schug: The insurance concept and its historical basis. Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-647-4 , p. 105 f.
  4. ↑ For the origins and history of the Eranos conferences, see the Eranos Foundation website .
  5. ↑ see statutes of Eranos Vindobonensis ( Memento of the original from July 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kphil.ned.univie.ac.at