Noll, Richard. "C. G. Jung, A. N. Whitehead and the Vitalistic Zeitgeist."Whitehead Religion Psychology. 84-89.[Conference paper presented at The 5th International Whitehead Conference], Seoul, South Korea, May 28.2004.

Abstract

Scholarly treatments of the points of congruence and incongruence between the metaphysical ideas of C. G. Jung (1875-1961) and A. N. Whitehead (1861-1947) often rely on analogical bridges that do not take into account the broader historical context within which these men lived and worked. In my presentation, I will offer an alternative approach to understanding the thought of Jung and Whitehead by positioning their texts within the broader intellectual currents of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Lebensphilosophie and vitalism. I argue that the surface similarities in the ideas between these two men are better understood within the vitalistic discourse of their historical epoch.

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