by Mircea Eliade · ALIANZA EDITORIAL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420613796
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«El mito del eterno retorno» is the philosophical essay by Mircea Eliade, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
The essay studies how traditional societies conceive time: against linear progress, they seek a return to origins and use archetypes and repetitions to escape history. Eliade sees in this an archaic ontology and a metaphysical valuation of existence, and presents it as an introduction to the philosophy of history.
It belongs to the El Libro de Bolsillo collection of Alianza Editorial (no. 379, Humanities section) and is a translation from French by Ricardo Anaya.
For readers interested in philosophy, history of religions, and anthropology.
Mircea Eliade was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. One of the most influential scholars of religion of the 20th century and interpreter of religious experience, he established paradigms in religious studies. His theory that hierophanies form the basis of religion, splitting the human experience of reality into sacred and profane space and time, has proved influential. One of his most instrumental contributions to religious studies was his theory of eternal return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply commemorate hierophanies, but actually participate in them.
