Excerpt from The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry Into the Transformation of the Individual The present study evolved from series of lectures which were given first in 1947 at Black Mountain College, then in 1948 at Cornell University, and finally, in the Spring of 1955, in a new and much amplified version, under the auspices of the Christian Gauss Seminars in Criticism at Princeton University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. --Este texto se refiere a la edición Paperback .