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Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism (Hardcover, New)
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Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism (Hardcover, New)
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Mircea Eliade, influential writer and scholar of religion,
envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into
renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and
symbols. Eliade foresaw this restoration of meaning bringing about
a "new humanism" of existential meaning and cultural-religious
unity - but left it ambiguously defined. Cave sets forward a
structural description of what this "new humanism" might have meant
for Eliade, and what it signifies for modern culture, through a
biographical exegesis of Eliade's life and writings from his early
years in Romania to his last years as professor of the history of
religions at the University of Chicago. Addressing Eliade's
political associations and espousals on Romanian politics and
culture, theories on myth and symbols, existential and comparative
hermeneutics, literature of the fantastic, interpretation of homo
religiosus, views on the loss of meaning in modern consciousness
and on the cosmic spirituality of archaic humans, as well as other
subjects, Cave sets these topics within the totality of Eliade's
oeuvre and evaluates them through the lens of the "new humanism".
Cave's book is the first to organize and evaluate the whole of
Eliade's work around a guiding principle, and on Eliade's own
terms. To augment the "new humanism", Cave uses data and themes
from the history of religions and draws on philosophy,
anthropology, psychology, modern science, and literary studies. The
result is a broad and probing overview of this most influential,
enigmatic, and frequently controversial man. Cave concludes by
endorsing Eliade's radically pluralistic vision which, he argues,
offers a key to the revitalization of ourdemythologized and
material culture. Cave also 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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