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Title	:	The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
Author	:	Mircea Eliade
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing
Pages	:	Pages: 195 pages
Published	:	November 21st 1971 by Princeton University Press (first published 1949)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Religion. Nonfiction. Fantasy. Mythology. History. Anthropology

The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History

Mircea Eliade

Paperback | Pages: 195 pages

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This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian emigre-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-86). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures & drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's "The Myth of the Eternal Return makes both intelligible & compelling the religious expressions & activities of a wide variety of archaic & "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human.

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Original Title:	Le mythe de l'eternel retour: Archétypes et répetition
ISBN:	0691017778 (ISBN13: 9780691017778)
Edition Language:	English

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I found the framework idea of the Archaic thoroughly interesting, though the most valuable section of the book is in the conclusion, where Eliade discusses the consequences for societies that have abandoned the Archaic worldview.

I read this book at nearly the perfect time, with a great percentage being undertaken around a Christmas/New Year holiday. The great thing about this book is that it provides a new lens to interpret our own lives while making 'ancient' cultural practices legible, and occasionally more familiar than the relations which we nominally live under. The primary question this book tackles is: how do we live with respect to history, the events which happen to us? This volume provides four choices:* to

This book was recommended to me as an excellent and inspiring book concerning the philosophy of history, and while I was initially sceptic about the relevance of this book I quickly turned to liking it. This is, in my opinion, a must-read for everyone interested in alternative approaches to (historical) time. While the book may sometimes be a little too repetitive (the author uses lots of examples that do not necessarily contribute to the argument), there are also a lot of exciting passages and

My second time reading through this and I got a lot more from it this time. If you have concerns about issues such as how man in modern secular society can cope with the lack of meaning this life presents and would like to consider other options such as reversion to past religious understandings of history of one kind or another that situated us in a meaningful historical time, that gave a sense, purpose and value to our struggles, then this book can provide you with some great suggestions. The

Eliade's thesis is easy enough to sum up -- events in an "archaic person's" life only acquired meaning inasmuch as they emulate an archetypal example performed in mythical time by gods, heroes, whatever. Rituals, naturally, are incredibly important -- given how closely they are modeled after mythical precedenkt, they transport the practitioner to this time before time and imbue them with whatever power was present then. This, of course, leads to a primitive struggle against history; a fixed,

Mircea Eliades the Myth of the Eternal Return is, on one level, an exposition of myths that explore and illustrate the concept of cyclical time. Eliade spans the globe recounting stories that outline his thesis, which is that man who lived in traditional, archaic societies lived in a world without history/non-linear time. Instead, he posits, they lived in a world that was created anew through ritual and the absorption of profane time into the sacred through the repetition of primordial gestures.

In a nutshell, this book concerns the translation of Myth as a way of mans coping with the cruel world and the events therein .To primitive man the only acts that where valid where those that mirrored the actions of the Gods and he frequently wiped his slate clean with frenzied ceremonies,so as to avoid responsibility for his transgressive acts.Modern man developed a more inclusive view of himself where by his experience was/is part of a refinement of the soul and his historic sufferings are