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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825086203321

Autore

Cave David

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993

ISBN

0-19-774010-3

1-280-52614-9

0-19-536073-7

1-4294-0744-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

291/.092

Soggetti

Human beings

Humanism - History - 20th century

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1993.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.