The 74th volume of the Eranos Yearbooks, The Age of Immediacy at the Test of Meaning, presents to the public the work of the last two years of activities at the Eranos Foundation (2017-2018). The book gathers the lectures presented at the occasion of the 2017 Eranos Conference, Where is the World Going? The Uncertain Future, between Traditional Knowledge and Scientific Thought, the 2018 Eranos Conference, Space for Thinking and Thinking about Space. Reflections on the Relations between the Soul and Places at the Time of the Anthropocene, the 2017 Eranos-Jung Lectures, Who is Afraid of Interiority? A Journey through Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology, the 2018 Eranos-Jung Lectures, Who is Stealing our Time? The Age of Immediacy at the Test of Meaning, and the 2018 Eranos School seminar, The Mechanisms of Heresy: Old and New Forms of Exclusion and Repression. The volume includes essays by Valery Afanassiev, Stephen Aizenstat, Arnaldo Benini, Paul Bishop, Roberto Casati, Adriano Fabris, Franco Ferrari, Giuseppe O. Longo, Jaap Mansfeld, Panos Mantziaras, Grazia Shogen Marchianò, Massimo Mori, Guy Pelletier, Antonio Prete, Francesca Rigotti, René Roux, Silvano Tagliagambe, Yannis Tsiomis, Amelia Valtolina, Matteo Vegetti, Antonio Vitolo, Samaneh Yasaei, and Chiara Zamboni.



Contents:



2017 Eranos Conference

Where is the World Going? The Uncertain Future,

between Traditional Knowledge and Scientific Thought



2018 Eranos Conference

Space for Thinking and Thinking about Space.

Reflections on the Relations between the Soul

and Places at the Time of the Anthropocene



2017 EranosJung Lectures

Who is Afraid of Interiority? A Journey

through Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology



2018 EranosJung Lectures

Who is Stealing our Time?

The Age of Immediacy at the Test of Meaning



2018 Eranos School

The Mechanisms of Heresy:

Old and New Forms of Exclusion and Repression