The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history / Mircea Eliade ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
By: Eliade, Mircea.
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TextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1971Copyright date: ℗♭1954Description: xv, 195 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 0691017778; 9780691017778; 9780691097985; 0691097984.Uniform titles: Mythe de l'©♭ternel retour. English Subject(s): Religion | Myth | History -- Religious aspects | CosmologyDDC classification: 113 Summary: An essay on mankind's experience of history and its interpretation, beginning with a study of the traditional or mythological view, and concluding with a comparative estimate of modern historiological approaches. At a moment when modern man has brought his race almost to the point of annihilation, the historical attitude has been all but discredited. The author seeks an answer to the question: What can protect us from the terror of history?
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"Second printing with correction, 1965; first Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing, 1971"--Title page verso
"Published in Harper torchbooks paperback edition (New York, 1959) under the title Cosmos and history"--Title page verso
An essay on mankind's experience of history and its interpretation, beginning with a study of the traditional or mythological view, and concluding with a comparative estimate of modern historiological approaches. At a moment when modern man has brought his race almost to the point of annihilation, the historical attitude has been all but discredited. The author seeks an answer to the question: What can protect us from the terror of history?
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