Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism

by John David Cave

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-religious unity. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195074343
• ISBN13: 9780195074345
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"