Images and Symbols
by Mircea Eliade
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Author: Mircea EliadeTranslator: Philip Mairet
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1991-06-05
ISBN: 069102068X
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Book Review: Towards a new humanism
Summary: 5 Stars
This insightful book features a central element of Eliade's work as a whole: a humanistic impulse which envisions the study of symbols as the best possible way to overcome close-mindedness and provincialism, and which holds that a liberation from the traps of historicism is necessary in order to reach the archetypes that somehow inform the multiple 'symbolic incarnations' throughout the ages and peoples. Eliade here considers symbols of centre, time, binding (relying a lot on Dumezil on that topic), waters and shells. The relationship between symbol and history is constantly examined in the book: Eliade suggests that each new meaning ascribed by history to a symbol does not alter the latter's fundamental structure, since the symbol can properly be considered 'transhistorical'. This is as good a work as any to start reading Eliade; many quintessential Eliadian themes are treated here.
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