Eliade, Mircea: Cosmos and History - The Myth of the Eternal Return
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Presents the thesis that ancient man envisaged events not as constituting a linear, progressive history, but simply as so many repetitions of primordial archetypes. For the first time we are shown, on purely empirical grounds, the essential and vast difference between the Hebrew-Christian tradition and "other religions." Includes an Index.
| Condition: |  |
| Category: | Books > Foreign Language Books > Books in English > |
| Category: | Books > Religion > Church history, Theology > |
| Publisher: | Harper Torchbooks, 1969. New York, |
| Item number / ISBN: | 0054551 |
| Binding: | paperback |
| Page count: | 176 |
| Item language: | English |
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