Mitologija versus filozofija povijesti
Mythology vs. Philosophy of History

Summary/Abstract: The author thematizes the problem of the relation between mythological and philosophical understanding of time and history through critical analyses of ethnological works of Mircea Eliade, particularly his book The Myth of Eternal Return: Cosmos and History. The leading Eliade’s question on the apories of modern historism, which emerged from philosophical and existential confrontation of modern man with the „Terror of history“, the author analyses in its problematic core as a problem of mythological annihilation of the time and history and historical-temporal annihilation of the myth. The author’s critique is focused towards the Eliade’s interpretation of ancient philosophical notions of time and history, and also those from The Old Testament.

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