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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986. Myth of the eternal return. [New York] Pantheon Books [c1954] (OCoLC)651958182 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mircea Eliade |
| OCLC Number: | 848294 |
| Description: | 195 p. 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Archetypes and repetition: The problem; Celestial archetypes of territories, temples, and cities; The symbolism of the center; Repetition of the cosmogony; Divine models of rituals; Archetypes of profane activities; Myths and history. -- The regeneration of time: Year, new year, cosmogony; Periodicity of the creation; Continuous regeneration of time. -- Misfortune and history: Normality of suffering; History regarded as theophany; Cosmis cycles and history; Destiny and history. -- The terror of history: Survival of the myth of eternal return; The difficulties of historicism; Freedom and history; Despair or faith. |
| Series Title: | Bollingen series., 46. |
| Other Titles: | Mythe de l'éternel retour. |
| Responsibility: | translated from the French by Willard R. Trask. |
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