About This Book
Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth addresses a series of topics that have been neglected in scholarship. First and foremost, the book looks at the early Romanian background of some of Eliade's ideas, especially his magical universe, which took on a more mythical nature with his arrival in the West. Other chapters deal with Eliade's attitude toward Judaism, which is crucial for his phenomenology of religion, and the influences of Kabbalah on his early work. Later chapters address his association with the Romanian extreme right movement known as the Iron Guard and the reverberation of some of the images in the post-war Eliade as well as with the status of Romanian culture in his eyes after World War II. The volume concludes by assessing the impact of Eliade's personal experiences on the manner in which he presented religion. The book will be useful in classes in the history of religion and the history of Eastern European intellectuals.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Preface ix
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. Camouflaged Sacred in Eliade’s Self-Perception, Literature, and Scholarship 30
- Chapter 2. Androgyne, Totality, and Reintegration 60
- Chapter 3. Thanatologies: Apotheoses and Triumphs of Death 104
- Chapter 4. Time, History, and Antithetic Judaism 135
- Chapter 5. Eliade and Kabbalah 157
- Chapter 6. A “Shadow” among Rhinoceroses: Mihail Sebastian between Ionescu and Eliade 175
- Chapter 7. Eliade, the Iron Guard, and Some Vampires 194
- Chapter 8. Eliade as a Romanian Thinker 226
- Final Remarks 241
- Key to Abbreviated References in the Notes 263
- Name Index 273
- Subject Index 279