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The Major Works of Heinrich Von Kleist
Nightmare--a politically explosive murder trial in the middle of the Vietnam War.
The Indian World Mother
"Heinrich Robert Zimmer (* December 6, 1890 in Greifswald; † March 20, 1943 in New Rochelle, New York) was a German Indologist. Son of Indologist and Celtologist Heinrich Friedrich Zimmer (1851-1910).Heinrich Robert Zimmer was an expert in South Asian art and an Indologist. He started his career in 1913 at the University of Berlin, where he studied Sanskrit and languages. Between 1920 until 1924, he taught at the University of Greifswald before relocating to Heidelberg to take the Indian Philology Chair. He was sacked by the Nazis in 1938. He moved to England, where he taught at Balliol College, Oxford, during 1939 and 1940. In 1942, he traveled to New York to assume a job as Visiting Lect...
Heinrich Zimmer
Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) is best known in the English-speaking world for the four posthumous books edited by Joseph Campbell and published in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Philosophies of India, The Art of Indian Asia, and The King and the Corpse. These works have inspired several generations of students of Indian religion and culture. All the papers in this volume testify to Zimmer's originality and to his rightful place in that small group of great scholars who were part of the first generation to confront the end of European empires in India and the rest of Asia. In her introduction, Margaret Case contrasts Zimmer's approach to India with that ...
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.
The King and the Corpse
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 King and the Corpse
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. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Heinrich Schenker's Conception of Harmony
The first detailed study of Schenker's pathbreaking 1906 treatise, showing how it reflected 2500 years of thinking about harmony and presented a vigorous reaction to Austro-Germanic music theory ca. 1900.
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