Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism.
Much has been written on Mircea Eliade (1907-1986) and his work on the history of religions, but little attention has been given to Eliade's idea of a 'new humanism' for modern culture. Yet this vision, as David Cave argues in this detailed analysis, was the motivating impulse behind...
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Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press, USA
1993
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction; 2 The New Humanism as a Hermeneutics of a ""Participatory Morphology"" and as a Spiritual Vision; 3 The Nature of the Human Condition: Humans as Symbolic; 4 The Nature of the Human Condition: The Human as Mythic and as Homo Religiosus; 5 The Goals of the New Humanism; 6 The Challenges of the New Humanism; 7 Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX