Shakespeare and Jung - The God in Time

Author: 

Driscoll, James, Ph.D.

In Shakespeare and Jung - The God in Time literary critic and philosopher James Driscoll presents original arguments for the existence and nature of God. He traverses the boundaries of art, philosophy, psychology, and religion to draw on Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and A. N. Whitehead to define and illuminate the interconnections of God and time.

Time’s irreversibility and continuous creation of novelty makes it the medium and engine of order, value, and meaning. Time connects and differentiates all, thereby making reality relational and allowing for feeling, thought, art, and science.

Shakespeare, the writer with the greatest insight into human nature, dramatized the primacy of time in our lives. Time is the de facto God of Shakespeare’s worlds. Shakespeare anticipated our own age when time began to displace eternity as the ground of reality.

Jung gave us a new map of the psyche and terminology to explore more deeply the human condition, bound as it is in time, and the nature of deity. Driscoll carries Jung’s insights further into the three paradigmatic revelations of the Western Godhead: The Book of Job, the Gospels, and Shakespeare’s King Lear. Shakespeare the artist grasped the dynamics of the Western Godhead giving us a singular revelation of its dominant archetypes, Yahweh, Job, Prometheus, and Christ.

The archetypes of the Western Godhead shaped the development of art, science, and technology and energized the ideals of progress and freedom. The West advanced rapidly in science, the arts, and human rights because of the unique archetypal dynamics of its God in Time.

Market: 
Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Psychiatry, Literature, Existentialism, Shakespeare, Carl Jung, A. N. Whitehead, Time, Psychology of Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Theology, Metaphysics, Public Philosophy, Civilization Studies
Release Date: 
January 15, 2019
ISBN: 
Hardcover: 978-1680534818
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
405
Illustrations: 
None
Publisher: 

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