On Mircea Eliade and „the terror of history”
On Mircea Eliade and „the terror of history”

Summary/Abstract: Mircea Eliade believed ever since his youth that the destiny of his generation was to make culture, not politics. For him, politics was a ‘barren’ activity, unworthy of a true intellectual. Politics should be left to the ‘political men’; the intellectuals have more important things to do. Beginning with 1935, Mircea Eliade wrote several articles which brought him closer to the Iron Guard in which he saw, as he often said, a political movement directly connected to the spirituality of the Romanian people. The expression ‘the terror of history’, used in his material, refers to Mircea Eliade’s political implication in interwar Romania.

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