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Book SynopsisHeinrich 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
Trade Review"Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) was a German Indologist and comparative mythologist whose enthusiasm for his subject helped Westerners see Indian thought not as something exotic but as another expression of the universal aspirations of the human spirit... These essays make it easier to go beyond the popular level and see why Zimmer stressed what he did."--Asian Folklore Studies
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction31Heinrich Zimmer from a Daughter's Perspective152An Epitaph for Heinrich Zimmer (1948)213Zimmer and the Mellons314The Impress of Dr. Jung on My Profession435The King and the Corpse and the Rabbi and the Talk-Show Star: Zimmer's Legacy to Mythologists and Indologists496Heinrich and Henry R. Zimmer: The Translator Translated617Magic, Myth, Mysticism, and Medicine878Schopenhauer's Shakti1059Zimmer and Coomaraswamy: Visions and Visualizations119List of Contributors143Index145
