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Article: Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism.
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- January 5, 1994
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Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism.
By David Cave. Oxford University Press, 218 pp, $35.00.
IN SOME respects David Cave well serves Mircea Eliade, the late distinguished historian of religions. In focusing on our need for a "new humanism," his thesis-driven study respects this major thinker's stated interests, directions and values. Informed and thoughtful, Cave, who teaches at Northern Kentucky University, argues compellingly that "the new humanism is the best interpretive guide for understanding Eliade wholistically and for providing the context for broadening and balancing the more specialized studies on his life and thought"--a reasonable ...