Abstract
This chapter argues that Eliade's diverse types of writings--religious, political, historical, literary, or personal--reveal the same underlying assumption: that the sacred camouflages itself within the profane and is therefore largely unrecognizable, and that, in order to reach a higher form of existence, one must be able to recognize its revelations, which are sometimes expressed by signs. The Romanian and Hindu experiences and the Florentine Renaissance were the determinant factors in his thought and literature, far more than his more formal adherence to the Iron Guard in 1937 and his prolonged participation in the Eranos encounters at Ascona from 1950.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions |
Subtitle of host publication | The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780199777358 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780195394337 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 May 2010 |
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Keywords
- Ascona
- Eranos
- Iron Guard
- Julius Evola
- René guenon