Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past - Updated Edition

William McGuire

ISBN 10: 0691099510 / ISBN 13: 9780691099514

Published by The Princeton University Press, 1982

About this Item

Book measures 22x15cm, 361pp. Bound in original publishers cloth, with gilt title lettering. Binding in near fine condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean, near fine. A very good clean copy.

Seller Inventory # 001686

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bollingen: An Adventure in Collecting the Past - Updated Edition
• Publisher: The Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691099510
• ISBN 13: 9780691099514
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

This lively, intimate, sometimes disrespectful, but always knowledgeable history of the Bollingen Foundation confirms its pervasive influence on American intellectual life. Conceived by Paul and Mary Mellon as a means of publishing in English the collected works of C. G. Jung, the Foundation broadened to encompass scholarship and publication in a remarkable number of fields. Here are wonderful portraits of the central figures, including the Mellons, Jung himself, Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell, D. T. Suzuki, Natacha Rambova, Vladimir Nabokov, Gershom Scholem, Herbert Read, and Kurt and Helen Wolff.

Review

"Because we know so little about the role of foundations in American intellectual life, we welcome . . . William McGuire's delightful chronicle of the Bollingen Foundation. Mr. McGuire . . . writes as a participant, not as an outside historian. But he makes the most of his particular perspective. . . And he tempers his sympathetic attachment with a winning sense of irony, even irreverence."--Thomas Bender, The New York Times Book Review