The King and the Corpse

Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil

Heinrich Zimmer (Autor)

Joseph Campbell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

1956
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-09779-4 (ISBN)

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Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, medieval Christianity, the Arthurian cycle, and early Hinduism. In the retelling of these tales, Zimmer discloses the meanings within their seemingly unrelated symbols and suggests the philosophical wholeness of this assortment of myth.

The noted Indologist Heinrich Zimmer, born in Germany in 1890, came to the United States in 1940, at the height of his career, and was lecturing at Columbia University when he died in 1943. His other works in the Bollingen series include Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization and Philosophies of India.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.3.2019
Reihe/Serie	Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-09779-8 / 0691097798
ISBN-13	978-0-691-09779-4 / 9780691097794
Zustand	Neuware