Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism.
Title:
Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism.
Author:
Cave, David.
ISBN:
9780195360738
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- 1 Introduction -- Biography of Eliade -- Nature of This Book -- 2 The New Humanism as a Hermeneutics of a "Participatory Morphology" and as a Spiritual Vision -- A Hermeneutics of a "Participatory Morphology" -- The New Humanism as a Spiritual Vision -- 3 The Nature of the Human Condition: Humans as Symbolic -- The Character of Symbolic Existence -- The New Humanism as Dialectical and Incarnational -- As a Cosmic Spirituality -- The New Humanism and the Relation to the Whole -- 4 The Nature of the Human Condition: The Human as Mythic and as Homo Religiosus -- Humans as Mythic -- Humans Make and Live in Myth -- The New Humanism as Transhistorical -- The New Humanism Patterned After Exemplary Models -- The New Humanism Patterned After Communitarian Models -- The Human Being as Homo Religiosus -- 5 The Goals of the New Humanism -- Humans as Authentic -- Humans as Free -- Humans as Cultural -- Humans at the Center -- 6 The Challenges of the New Humanism -- Humans as Creative -- Humans and Initiation -- The New Humanism: A Science -- 7 Conclusion -- Summary of Intent -- Appraisal of Findings -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
The influential scholar of religion Mircea Eliade envisioned a spiritually destitute modern culture coming into renewed meaning through the recovery of archetypal myths and symbols. Eliade defined this restoration of meaning as a "new humanism" of existential meaning and cultural-religiousunity. Through a biographical exegesis of Eliade's life and writings from his earliest years in Romania to his final ones as professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, Cave sets forward a structural description of what this "new humanism" might have meant for Eliade, andwhat it signifies for modern culture. Cave concludes by endorsing Eliade's radically pluralistic vision which, he argues, offers a key to the revitalization of our demythologized and material culture. This study repositions previous Eliadean studies and places the "new humanism" as the paradigm inrelation to which future readings of Eliade should be evaluated.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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