ELIADE’ S “PROPHECIES” ON MASS MEDIA － FULFILLMENTS OR UNPREDICTABLE DEVELOPMENTS?
ELIADE’ S “PROPHECIES” ON MASS MEDIA － FULFILLMENTS OR UNPREDICTABLE DEVELOPMENTS?

Summary/Abstract: Basing my paper on an anthropological and psycho-social approach of mass culture and mass communication in some of their fundamental aspects, I am concerned, first of all, in the highlighting of some great theoretical intuitions which Mircea Eliade have had about them. These intuitions were about the future changes in society, in mass-media and in our entire civilization. I will refer to them as “prophecies”, as some authors have named them. Then I am concerned in setting some imaginary limits which such “prophecies” appeared to have had at their time. Furthermore, I shall formulate some of my conclusions about the unpredictable consequences or developments that the cultural events visualized in advance by Eliade are producing in our times.

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