MYTH OF THE ETERNAL RETURN, OR COSMOS AND HISTORY Bollinger Series XLVI

ELIADE, MIRCEA.;.TRASK, WILLARD R. trans

ISBN 10: 0691017646 / ISBN 13: 9780691017648

Editore: Princeton University Press .;.MYTHOS, Princeton, NJ, 1991

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VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright PAPERBACK; WHITE & PURPLE cover titles on PINK & ORANGE on Dark Blue wraparound art paper covers . ; 195pg pages; ntelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of Eliade's argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text.

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• Titolo: MYTH OF THE ETERNAL RETURN, OR COSMOS AND HISTORY Bollinger Series XLVI
• Editore: Princeton University Press .;.MYTHOS, Princeton, NJ
• Data di pubblicazione: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0691017646
• ISBN 13: 9780691017648
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Disegnatore: Illustrated by GIANULIS, BRAD COVER ART
• Edizione: PAPERBACK; 13 12 11 10pt line.
• Condizione: Very Good

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Riassunto

In this landmark book the renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga, exploring how its guiding principle, that of freedom, involves remaining in the world without letting oneself be exhausted by such "conditionings" as time and history. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest foreshadowings in the Vedas through the twentieth century. The subjects discussed include Patañjali, author of the Yoga-sutras; yogic techniques, such as concentration "on a Single Point," postures, and respiratory discipline; and Yoga in relation to Brahmanism, Buddhism, Tantrism, Oriental alchemy, mystical erotism, and shamanism.

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"[I]t states with clarity and precision what the beliefs and practices of yoga are, and how they originated from the primeval Indic religions."--The New Yorker