Reading and responding to Mircea Eliade's History of religious ideas : the lure of the late Eliade /
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| Author / Creator: | Mason, John R., 1946- |
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| Imprint: | Lewiston : E. Mellen Press, c1993. |
| Description: | iv, 121 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1461137 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A Death in Chicago
- I. The Last War Against Sleep. A. Eliade's Path Toward a History of Religious Ideas. B. A Strategy for Reading an Unfinished History. 1. Anthropology. 2. Seminology. 3. Morphology of Civilizational Complexes. 4. Comparative Symbolics. 5. Normative Judgments. a. Urge Toward the Universal. b. Emphasis on the Esoteric. c. Preference for the Archaic. d. Commitment to the Transhistorical
- III. Some Questions for Future Study. A. The Question of Science. B. The Question of Goethe. C. The Question of Fascism. D. Must Ontology be Archaic?
- IV. Conclusion: The Moon Wanes; The Moon Waxes.