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The Myth of the Eternal Return:

Or, Cosmos and History
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University Press, 1971 - Social Science - 195 pages
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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Review: The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History

User Review  - Sparrow - Goodreads

Eliade is an excellent excerpter. Turning (arbitrarily) to page 79: The Vedic altar, to employ Paul Mus' formula, is time materialized. "That fire-altar also is the Year, -- the nights are its ... Read full review

Review: The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History

User Review  - Will Lashley - Goodreads

Notions of time, myth, history and the life of the spirit examined across dozens of archaic and primitive belief systems. A celebration of The Return, the cyclical rebirth of everything alive, and a scholarly Ouroboros of origin as destination. Read full review

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Eternal return (Eliade) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Third sentence: “Putting it negatively, the myth of the eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return, ...
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Cosmos and History:The Myth of the Eternal Return Mircea Eliade Bollingen | ISBN 0691017778 | 1971 | PDF | 1 MB | 167 pages. Alıntı: ...
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About the author (1971)

Born in Bucharest, Rumania, Mircea Eliade studied at the University of Bucharest and, from 1928 to 1932, at the University of Calcutta with Surendranath Dasgupta. After taking his doctorate in 1933 with a dissertation on yoga, he taught at the University of Bucharest and, after the war, at the Sorbonne in Paris. From 1957, Eliade was a professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago. He was at the same time a writer of fiction, known and appreciated especially in Western Europe, where several of his novels and volumes of short stories appeared in French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Two Tales of the Occult "to relate some yogic techniques, and particularly yogic folklore, to a series of events narrated in the genre of a mystery story." Both Nights of Serampore and The Secret of Dr. Honigberger evoke the mythical geography and time of India. Mythology, fantasy, and autobiography are skillfully combined in Eliade's tales.

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TitleThe Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History
Bollingen series
Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)
AuthorMircea Eliade
Editionreprint
PublisherUniversity Press, 1971
ISBN0691017778, 9780691017778
Length195 pages
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