The Myth of the Eternal Return (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
2005-04-01
Upplaga
2
Förlag
Princeton University Press
Översättare
Willard R Trask
Medarbetare
Smith, Jonathan Z. (introd.)
Dimensioner
215 x 140 x 18 mm
Vikt
240 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780691123509

The Myth of the Eternal Return

Cosmos and History

av Mircea Eliade
Häftad,  Engelska, 2005-04-01
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This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of Eliade's argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text.
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From review of Princeton's original edition: "A luminous, profound, and extremely stimulating work... This is an essay which anyone interested in the history of religion and the mentality of ancient man will have to read. -- Review of Religion From review of Princeton's original edition: "Profound and pregnant research in the psychology of time and the intuitive forms of the mind as revealed by the early cultures' attitude toward history. -- Nation

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Born in Bucharest in 1907, Mircea Eliade was for many years Sewell L. Avery Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. He is the author of, among other books, "Shamanism", "Images and Symbols", and "Yoga" (all Princeton). Jonathan Z. Smith is Robert O. Anderson Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago and the author of "Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown" and, most recently, "Relating Religion: Essays in the Study of Religion".

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