The myth of the eternal return
Subtitle: or, Cosmos and history
By: Mircea Eliade ; translated from the French by Willard R. Trask.
Series: Bollingen series -- 46.; Mythos; Mythos (Princeton, N.J.)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Religion.; Myth.; History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Other titles: Cosmos and history.
Work titles: Mythe de l'éternel retour.
Description: An essay on mankind's experience of history and its interpretation, beginning with a study of the traditional or mythological view, and concluding with a comparative estimate of modern historiological approaches. At a moment when modern man has brought his race almost to the point of annihilation, the historical attitude has been all but discredited. The author seeks an answer to the question: What can protect us from the terror of history?
Notes: Translation of: Le mythe de l'éternel retour.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-174) and index.