Prof. Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. His books examine the history of ideas, with particular emphasis on Nietzsche, C.G. Jung, and Ludwig Klages. He has published numerous books, including The Archaic: The Past in the Present, The Ecstatic and the Archaic, The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic, as well as Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life: A Vitalist Toolkit. Here, in conversation with Prof. Arthur Versluis, Prof. Bishop discusses the archaic, the nature of modernity, the absence and presence of values, and many related themes to explore the underlying theme of how we got here.
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