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Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
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Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History Paperback - 1971

by Mircea Eliade; Willard R. Trask (Translator)

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From the publisher

This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian migr-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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THIS book undertakes to study certain aspects of archaic ontology-more precisely, the conceptions of being and reality that can be read from the behavior of the man of the premodern societies.

Details

  • Title Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History
  • Author Mircea Eliade; Willard R. Trask (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition reprint
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, U.s.a.
  • Publication date November 1, 1971
  • ISBN 9780691017778 / 0691017778
  • Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.43 x 5.41 x 0.73 in (21.41 x 13.74 x 1.85 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Cosmology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 113

About the author

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).

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