| Translated Title: | MIRCEA ELIADE'S WORKS: BETWEEN THE NOSTALGIA OF THE ORIGINS AND THE WAY FOR THE UPRISING OF THE BEING AGAINST HYPERMODERNITY |
| Publication: | Annals of "1 Decembrie 1918" University of Alba Iulia - Philology (15/2/2014) |
| Author Name: | LEMONNIER, JEAN-MICHEL; |
| Language: | French |
| Subject: | Culture and Society |
| Issue: | 15/2/2014 |
| Page Range: | 18-37 |
| No. of Pages: | 20 |
Summary:
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He will not be here to make yet another comment about a work which is already widely discussed, showing the contributions of thereligious historian regarding the understanding of religious phenomena or theexperience of the sacred, but rather to try to extract work from the materialneeded to build a liberating way for the individual with a hypermodernistattitude. Even more than an alternative path of salvation in the religious sense,it is a revolution of the human being, who has been shrugged off of all hisillusions about politics, world trading, egotistic exchange that takes shapewithin what we call the "eliadean system". We know about the similaritiesbetween Mircea Eliade's and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's new man, but we musttranscend this identification corresponding to a particular historical contextand review the work of the religious historian to overcome any collusion withany particular political ideology. In a similar manner, we try to show that alarge part of his work - if not all - goes beyond the development of a "newhumanism" and traces a possible path for the insurrection of man by a return to his own center. Therefore, Mircea Eliade would not be the voice of arevolutionary vanguard guiding the man, but the inspiration of a completerevolution of the man who is beyond the world of the technician and of themercantile illusion, which takes place in its "cosmic utterness". Thus, Eliade'swork would carry the answers that can lead us to the end of the night of theillusions of materialistic societies and would predict an insurrection of the realbeing, of the quality who dares to face the reign of quantity and fragmentation,in order to permanently abolish it by a metanoia. So, the work of the Romanianscientist certainly announces - to be sure indirectly - the end of all ideologiesand brings all the stones for the construction of a "non-ideology" or "nonphilosophy"that exceeds all religious and political categories, the base of anew society: a community of the real being. In other words, when talking about his work, Eliade tells us how this nostalgia of origins can be sublimated and become a source of renewal and absolute, leading us to think about the modern world and all its paroxystic extensions as being a historical parenthesis, hopeless, destined to be abolished, in order to make way for the man exempted
of his alienation, free from all possible burdens: the membership to a social class, varied delusional beliefs, narcissism and self-hate, death anxiety, adoration of immediacy...
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Keywords:
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cosmic totality; Mircea Eliade; revolt against, hypermodernity; alienation |
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