Ramona Matei, Mircea Eliade in Culianu’s ”reading”: religious hermeneutics and history (I)
Mircea Eliade in Culianu’s ’’reading’’: religious hermeneutics and history (I)
Referring to the division of periods established by Horia-Roman Patapievici, it is observed, in the transition from ”young Culianu” to ”the last Culianu”, an obvious metamorphosis of his historical views as well as of the mission of the history of religions, a privileged discipline through which he will commence his external contemplations. This article aims to emphasize this precise stage of genuine thinking and the metamorphosis which, at the end, materializes a unique theory of the ”mind games.” The manner in which the disciple interprets the master’s (i.e. Mircea Eliade’s) work is revelatory for the field of ideas.
Keywords: history, religious hermeneutics, mind games, system, cognitivism, Mircea Eliade, Ioan Petru Culianu
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