Eliade on Mitigating the Terror of History

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY: Eliade on Mitigating the Terror of History

Thursday 13 March 2025 is the 118th anniversary of the birth of Mircea Eliade (13 March [Old Style 28 February] 1907 – 22 April 1986), who was born in Bucharest, Romania, on this date in 1907.

Eliade was among the great scholars of religion of the twentieth century, and his book The Myth of the Eternal Return: or, Cosmos and History brought to bear a mythological understanding of the human condition on the problem of history. For Eliade, the terror of history requires some mitigating mythology, and while archaic man had a cosmology that protected him from the terror of history, modern man has no such protection.

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