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Mircea Eliade & the Mythological Origins of Literature ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Through his interpretive method, Mircea Eliade sought to keep open the path of metaphysics, and even mysticism, at a time when secular interpretations of culture—sociological, psychoanalytical, economical, and so forth—triumphantly dominated the scene of the human sciences. An erudite historian of religions and a passionate author of fiction well known in Romania, Mircea Eliade developed […]