Mircea Eliade's vision for a new humanism / David Cave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cave, David, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986.

Eliade, Mircea.

Humanism--History--20th century.

Humanism.

Religion.

Human beings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study argues that Mircea Eliade's idea of a "new humanism" for modern cultures was the motivating impulse behind much of his life's work on the history of religions.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-774010-3

1-280-52614-9

0-19-536073-7

1-4294-0744-1

OCLC:

476010135