عنوان

Utopian Landscapes and Ecstatic Journeys:

شماره

LA122661

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Utopian Landscapes and Ecstatic Journeys:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Friedrich Nietzsche, Hermann Hesse, and Mircea Eliade on the Terror of Modernity

نام نخستين پديدآور

Kocku von Stuckrad

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Against the background of fascism and the disasters of two world wars, during the first decades of the twentieth century many European intellectuals were formulating negative responses to "modernity" and to what they regarded as the decline of human civilization. Often, these intellectuals sought for alternatives to the modern conditio humana and looked for solutions in religion, art, or philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche's conceptualization of the Dionysian and the Orphic is of particular importance for such a discourse of modernity. After introducing Nietzsche's contribution as a referential framework, the article compares two representatives of this intellectual discourse: Hermann Hesse and Mircea Eliade. At first glance, Hesse, the writer and poet, does not seem to have much in common with Eliade, the scholar of religion and writer of novels. Upon closer examination, however, there are remarkable similarities in their work and their evaluation of the modern human condition. For Hesse, it was art, music, and literature that provided the antidote against the predicaments of modern culture. Eliade shared Hesse's search for an alternative to the modern condition and found it in the pure religion outside of time and space, in the illud tempus of the homo religiosus. For him, it was shamanism in particular that provided a model for a contact with the absolute world of truth untouched by the "terror of history." The article argues that these dialectical responses are part and parcel of the project of European "modernity" itself, rather than representing an "anti-modern" claim. Against the background of fascism and the disasters of two world wars, during the first decades of the twentieth century many European intellectuals were formulating negative responses to "modernity" and to what they regarded as the decline of human civilization. Often, these intellectuals sought for alternatives to the modern conditio humana and looked for solutions in religion, art, or philosophy. Friedrich Nietzsche's conceptualization of the Dionysian and the Orphic is of particular importance for such a discourse of modernity. After introducing Nietzsche's contribution as a referential framework, the article compares two representatives of this intellectual discourse: Hermann Hesse and Mircea Eliade. At first glance, Hesse, the writer and poet, does not seem to have much in common with Eliade, the scholar of religion and writer of novels. Upon closer examination, however, there are remarkable similarities in their work and their evaluation of the modern human condition. For Hesse, it was art, music, and literature that provided the antidote against the predicaments of modern culture. Eliade shared Hesse's search for an alternative to the modern condition and found it in the pure religion outside of time and space, in the illud tempus of the homo religiosus. For him, it was shamanism in particular that provided a model for a contact with the absolute world of truth untouched by the "terror of history." The article argues that these dialectical responses are part and parcel of the project of European "modernity" itself, rather than representing an "anti-modern" claim.

تاريخ نشر

2010

توصيف ظاهري

78-102

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

57/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

art

اصطلاح موضوعی

ecstasy

اصطلاح موضوعی

fascism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Friedrich Nietzsche

اصطلاح موضوعی

Hermann Hesse

اصطلاح موضوعی

intellectualism

اصطلاح موضوعی

literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mircea Eliade

اصطلاح موضوعی

nature

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

shamanism

اصطلاح موضوعی

war

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Kocku von Stuckrad

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852710X12551326520571

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y