240 Pages
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Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
by
Routledge
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Greeted with controversy on its publication, Answer to Job has long been neglected by many serious commentators on Jung. This book offers an intellectual and cultural context for C.G.Jung's 1952 publication. In Jung's Answer to Job: A Commentary, the author argues that such neglect is due to a failure to understand Jung's objectives in this text and offers a new way of reading the work. The... Read more
Introduction: The Book of Job and its Commentators. Knowledge or Faith? Overview. Part I: Background. Genesis of the Text. Jung on Answer to Job. Sermons and Symbols. Part II: Commentary. Answer to Job - An Analytical Commentary Part I. Answer to Job - An Analytical Commentary Part II.
Biography
Paul Bishop is Professor of German and Head of the Department of German Language and Literature at the University of Glasgow. He edited Jung in Contexts: A Reader (Routledge, 1999) and has published various articles on Jung's intellectual affinities with German Philosophy and literature.
'This masterful commentary sets new standards for the contextualisation and exegenesis of Jung's writings and will establish itself as the indispensable companion to Answer to Job' - Roderick Main, Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex.
