Autor: Mircea Eliade

Notes from the Other Side of Night is a diary-memoir written upon Juliana Geran Pilon’s return to her native Romania in 1975, which she had left along with her family when she was just fourteen. Poet …

In this exuberant and touching portrait of youth, Eliade recounts the fictional version of his university years in late 1920’s Bucharest. Marked by a burgeoning desire to ‘suck out all the marrow of …

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Înfăptuind vechiul proiect al profesorului său, I.P. Culianu a publicat Dicționarul în 1990. De atunci acesta a fost tradus în peste douăzeci de limbi și este un bestseller mereu reeditat. Dicționaru …

Bucharest, 1938: while Hitler gains power in Germany, the Romanian police start arresting students they suspect of belonging to the Iron Guard. Meanwhile, a man who has spent his life studying langua …

The short-sighted adolescent is a poor schoolboy who is in love with literature, and tries to emulate the lives and works of the writers he most admires. He is also fascinated by science and history, …

Este libro es fruto de un contacto directo con la India, y constituye un precioso testimonio sobre la civilización y la espiritualidad orientales. Pocos escritores europeos han penetrado tan incisiva …

Eroul cărții este un doctor în arta extrem-orientală, ce părăsise țara sa de miazănoapte pentru a-și continua cercetările în India. E, în mod evident, un alter ego al autorului, iar personajele, deco …

Detailing a fascinating, hitherto unknown period in the life of one of the twentieth century’s preeminent intellectuals, The Portugal Journal was written by Mircea Eliade from 1941–1945, when he serv …

First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishi …

Mircea Eliade–one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic–shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discu …

Un testo che è un vero trattato sulle origini del pensiero religioso magico nel corso dei secoli e dei millenni. Un testo che rivela cosa A distanza di sessant'anni dalla sua pubblicazione …

În perioada dominată de triumfurile raționalismului științific, cum socotim succesul extraordinar al unor mișcări oculte precum astrologia sau renașterea vrăjitoriei? Din perspectiva sa de istoric al …

Prenant la suite des Hooligans (publié à L’Herne en 1987), Retour du paradis ouvre une série de romans que Mircea Eliade a consacré sa génération. Les personnalités multiples et souvent contradictoir …

In this era of increased knowledge the essence of religious phenomena eludes the psychologists, sociologists, linguists, and other specialists because they do not study it as religious. According to …

"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about ‘primitive’ and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new inform …

The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperback Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern …

Primitive man’s discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In The Forge and the Crucible, Mircea Eliade follows the rit …

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his c …

"Here finally are Eliade’s memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett’s crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early developmen …

In The Quest Mircea Eliade stresses the cultural function that a study of the history of religions can play in a secularized society. He writes for the intelligent general reader in the hope that wha …

"Here finally are Eliade’s memoirs of the first thirty years of his life in Mac Linscott Rickett’s crisp and lucid English translation. They present a fascinating account of the early developmen …

Journal IV is the first publication, in a translation from the Romanian manuscript, of the journal that Mircea Eliade kept during the last seven years of his life. In this period, Eliade is ensconced …

In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his persp …