MIRCEA ELIADE'S WORKS: BETWEEN THE NOSTALGIA OF THE ORIGINS AND THE WAY FOR THE UPRISING OF THE BEING AGAINST HYPERMODERNITY Cover Image

L'OEUVRE DE MIRCEA ELIADE : ENTRE NOSTALGIE DES ORIGINES ET VOIE POUR L'INSURRECTION DE L'ÊTRE CONTRE L'HYPERMODERNITÉ
MIRCEA ELIADE'S WORKS: BETWEEN THE NOSTALGIA OF THE ORIGINS AND THE WAY FOR THE UPRISING OF THE BEING AGAINST HYPERMODERNITY

Author(s): JEAN-MICHEL LEMONNIER
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Universitatea »1 Decembrie 1918« Alba Iulia
Keywords: cosmic totality; Mircea Eliade; revolt against hypermodernity; alienation

Summary/Abstract: He will not be here to make yet another comment about a work which is already widely discussed, showing the contributions of the religious historian regarding the understanding of religious phenomena or the experience of the sacred, but rather to try to extract work from the material needed to build a liberating way for the individual with a hypermodernist attitude. 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 his illusions about politics, world trading, egotistic exchange that takes shape within what we call the "eliadean system". We know about the similarities between Mircea Eliade's and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu's new man, but we must transcend this identification corresponding to a particular historical context and review the work of the religious historian to overcome any collusion with any particular political ideology. In a similar manner, we try to show that a large part of his work - if not all - goes beyond the development of a "new humanism" 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 a revolutionary vanguard guiding the man, but the inspiration of a complete revolution of the man who is beyond the world of the technician and of the mercantile illusion, which takes place in its "cosmic utterness". Thus, Eliade's work would carry the answers that can lead us to the end of the night of the illusions of materialistic societies and would predict an insurrection of the real being, 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 Romanian scientist certainly announces - to be sure indirectly - the end of all ideologies and brings all the stones for the construction of a "non-ideology" or "nonphilosophy" that exceeds all religious and political categories, the base of a new society: a community of the real being.

  • Issue Year: 15/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 18-37
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: French