Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. His previous publications include On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche and Jung, Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics (2 vols), and, as editor, The Archaic: The Past in the Present and Jung in Contexts: A Reader (all Routledge).

‘Bishop’s skill as a historian shines here, for the level of detail he provides is truly exceptional, especially insofar as it concerns Klages’s intellectual development’ (Configurations)‘Beautiful and accessible … For anyone who seriously studies nineteenth and twentieth-century continental philosophy today, this introduction to Klages is indispensable’ (British Journal for the History of Philosophy)‘With this concise and clearly-written book, [Bishop] ingeniously succeeds in opening a door and offering access to an important, complex, and most influential ? yet almost forgotten ? thinker of the 20th century’ (International Journal of Jungian Studies)

• CONTENTSAbbreviationsList of FiguresAcknowledgements Glossary of Klagesian TerminologyPrefacePart 1: LifePart 2: Works and Key IdeasPart 3: For Advanced Readers — Selections from KlagesFurther ReadingNotes

Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists. His previous publications include On the Blissful Islands with Nietzsche and Jung, Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics (2 vols), and, as editor, The Archaic: The Past in the Present and Jung in Contexts: A Reader (all Routledge).

‘Bishop’s skill as a historian shines here, for the level of detail he provides is truly exceptional, especially insofar as it concerns Klages’s intellectual development’ (Configurations)‘Beautiful and accessible … For anyone who seriously studies nineteenth and twentieth-century continental philosophy today, this introduction to Klages is indispensable’ (British Journal for the History of Philosophy)‘With this concise and clearly-written book, [Bishop] ingeniously succeeds in opening a door and offering access to an important, complex, and most influential ? yet almost forgotten ? thinker of the 20th century’ (International Journal of Jungian Studies)

• CONTENTSAbbreviationsList of FiguresAcknowledgements Glossary of Klagesian TerminologyPrefacePart 1: LifePart 2: Works and Key IdeasPart 3: For Advanced Readers — Selections from KlagesFurther ReadingNotes