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| Original Title: | Le mythe de l'eternel retour: Archétypes et répetition |
| ISBN: | 0691017778 (ISBN13: 9780691017778) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Mircea Eliade
Paperback | Pages: 195 pages Rating: 4.23 | 2399 Users | 116 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History |
| Author | : | Mircea Eliade |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing |
| Pages | : | Pages: 195 pages |
| Published | : | November 21st 1971 by Princeton University Press (first published 1949) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Religion. Nonfiction. Fantasy. Mythology. History. Anthropology |
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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 (1907-86). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures & drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's "The Myth of the Eternal Return makes both intelligible & compelling the religious expressions & activities of a wide variety of archaic & "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.Rating Containing Books The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
Ratings: 4.23 From 2399 Users | 116 ReviewsCriticism Containing Books The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
Mircea Eliades the Myth of the Eternal Return is, on one level, an exposition of myths that explore and illustrate the concept of cyclical time. Eliade spans the globe recounting stories that outline his thesis, which is that man who lived in traditional, archaic societies lived in a world without history/non-linear time. Instead, he posits, they lived in a world that was created anew through ritual and the absorption of profane time into the sacred through the repetition of primordial gestures.Many years ago i was sitting in front of an Archetype Personality, i mean a Sufi mystic or a Babaji. Baba ji told me many intricate details of my personality like a psychologist. I was young and impressionable so i believe every word literally. Baba ji advised me to write fiction, till then i never thought of writing anything. Still i don't know how to write a good story, i just fill pages. So i asked him what should i read to become a good writer. He smiled and said, you should read mythology
"Among countless stones, one stone becomes sacred - and hence instantly becomes saturated with being . . . because it commemorates a mythical act . . ." --Eliade, p. 4
Stick with it!! The last ten pages are amazing but only because of all the pages before them. Some of those pages are pretty amazing, too.
I found the framework idea of the Archaic thoroughly interesting, though the most valuable section of the book is in the conclusion, where Eliade discusses the consequences for societies that have abandoned the Archaic worldview.
To Transcend Profane Time It is always a joy to read a great man's greatest book- and the author himself considered this to be the most significant of all his works. He would expand the central concepts elsewhere, but it is here that they first seem to burst forth. The way he rattles out references and examples with only a line or footnote you get the feeling that he can't be bothered with detailed analysis because he is too caught up with the central ideas and is being swept along with them. It
Very interesting information, the structure of the book made it more interesting. I like the vocab used.
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