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# The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Works of Mircea Eliade, 4) Paperback – May 8, 2005

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## Customer Reviews

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    The Apocatastatic Dynamic
  

*by P***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 12, 2009*

I am a newcomer to the scholarship of Eliade, being referred to him, through lecture, only recently by the late Terence McKenna (who explicitly mentions the universally respected academic cornerstone "Shamanism") and Stephan Hoeller.  In my initial interest for finding his works I was concerned with where to enter the massive corpus, having already a keen insight into the subjects of cultural and religious psychology (that is to say, their history).  By reading a fair amount of reviews on the highly rated tomes, I came across one that mentions Eliade himself recommending this particular offering as a starting place to his brand of information; this a result of Eliade being asked--as he often was, apparently--basically, `Where would one begin with you?'  Having that come straight from the source, it was simply a matter of placing my order (along with "Shamanism"), and embarking upon my studies in his stream of thought.I could regale the reader with a long and involved report, but would rather say something more to the point: I cannot praise this book too much.  It comes highly recommended to anyone interested in the main differences, psychologically speaking, between our distant "ahistorical" ancestors' (from across the globe) and our own "historicistic" modes of religious worship, social activity, and spiritual reconciliation to "time".  Eliade touches upon the non-Jungian archetypes that comprise the tribal structure, and how actual events became interpreted mythologically (thus meaning nothing in themselves); how archaic man was clearly freer than we, his time-bound successors--freer to approach the deity, to appease the deity, to co-create with the deity, et cetera.  He concludes with how and why such a disposition, such a world is no longer available to us, being culturally resigned to the temporal realms (via clocks, and other mundane, "profane" scheduling systems).  Do not be fooled by the short length--these are considerably deep waters, if one is not well-versed in the material.  Eliade is damn thorough, making an astounding number of references to groups and cultures, authors and works, that might not be at the forefront of your brain or tip of your tongue (his acumen is found to be quite impressive).  Aside from reasonably sober expositions, Eliade lends himself to an immensely enjoyable and accessible reading--even inspiring in certain spots.  Here is the perfect balance of scholarship and entertainment; for some this will reveal itself to be another piece of "the big puzzle", for others it will be a catalyst to starting that puzzle.  Read it for fun, homework, inner-work, re-read it for clarification--whatever--the value is immeasurable.

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    Shoddy - Received a copy from a print run that should've been pulped.
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2018*

Great book, BUT... I have the same issue as another reviewer - typos/errors all over the front and back cover: every instance of 'io' (as in 'religion' or 'nation') is replaced by a superscript numeral '2', including the front cover subtitle. And there's more. See photo. The interior is fine because it's just a scan from a previous edition, but as with the other reviewer, Amazon and Princeton shouldn't be selling these faulty copies. Ordered via Prime, not third-party.

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    Got the Book in good condition, It is not the same cover photo as advertised though
  

*by D***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 10, 2020*

I got the book in its entirety but the only thing is that its not the same cover art. It's minimal but please advertise the book as it comes.

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