The myth of the eternal return, or, Cosmos and history /
Mircea Eliade ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask
- xv, 195 pages ; 22 cm
"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?