City & Soul

"Edited by Robert J. Leaver and introduced by Gail Thomas, City & Soul, Vol. 2 of the Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, comprises Hillman's writings on the psychology of public affairs: urbanism, environmental aesthetics, citizenship, and politics. The forty-two chapters are divided into four groups: Patient as Citizen, Politics of Beauty, Places of Practice, and Responsive Environmentalism. City & Soul includes delivered lectures on formal occasions, journal articles, transcription of audio tapes, pieces from magazines, and letters to editors. In each case the form defines the voice. Because basic ideas-the importance of mythical and archetypal foundations, anima mundi and animating the soul of the world, the politics of beauty and ugliness, city as nature, community and the common-are central to Hillman's thought, these themes repeat throughout the book, a repetition that is necessary to the integrity of its inspiration"--