The future human: mircea eliade and the fantastic mutant
The present essay traces an intellectual history of the categories of the psychical and the paranormal through social history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, literature, and, finally, the history of religions. It then turns to the late writings of Mircea Eliade and Ioan Couliano, demonstratin...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Romanian Association for the History of Religions
2011
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Archaeus
Year: 2011, Volume: XV, Issue: 1+02, Pages: 187-208 |
| Further subjects: | B
Arthur Schopenhauer
B Sigmund Freud B Mysticism B psychical B Francis Ford Coppola B Mircea Eliade B Carl Gustav Jung B Parapsychology B Ioan Couliano B Andrew Lang B Occultism B paranormal |
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| Summary: | The present essay traces an intellectual history of the categories of the psychical and the paranormal through social history, philosophy, anthropology, psychology, literature, and, finally, the history of religions. It then turns to the late writings of Mircea Eliade and Ioan Couliano, demonstrating how these two men took up modern physics to think seriously about the various altered states of the history of gnosticism, esotericism, and mysticism. The essay concludes with a discussion of Francis Ford Coppola’s treatment of Eliade’s novel Youth Without Youth, focusing in on the theme of the mystic or psychic as mutant. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Archaeus
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