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Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism

By David Cave

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0195074343, 9780195074345
LCC
BL43.E4 C38 1993
Open Library ID
OL1558849M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3124224 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
229\229
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Философские дисциплины;Философия религии

Description

The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and symbols. Eliade defined this restoration of meaning as a "new humanism" of existential meaning and cultural-religious unity. Through a biographical exegesis of Eliade's life and writings from his earliest years in Romania to his final ones as professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, Cave sets forward a structural description of what this "new humanism" might have meant for Eliade, and what it signifies for modern culture. Cave concludes by endorsing Eliade's radically pluralistic vision which, he argues, offers a key to the revitalization of our demythologized and material culture. This study repositions previous Eliadean studies and places the "new humanism" as the paradigm in relation to which future readings of Eliade should be evaluated.

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