ABOUT ORDEAL BY LABYRINTH IN POLAND BEFORE AND AFTER 1990
ABOUT ORDEAL BY LABYRINTH IN POLAND BEFORE AND AFTER 1990

Summary/Abstract: The first text related to the Eliade's book «Ordeal by Labyrinth» appeared in Poland in 1989, it was an essay titled «Between chance and necessity. Life as an ordeal by labyrinth» (Miedzy przypadkiem a koniecznością. Życie jako prñba labiryntu) signed by Ireneusz Kania. The Polish exeget wanted to pay attention of the reader to two things: the first one was the specific way in which Eliade looks at his way of life. The second thing was a philosophical attitude of Eliade with a priori character that gives meaning to the methodology used in his scientific research, called antireductionism. In 1992 appears a review written by Andrzej Miś in the magazine «Przegląd Filozoficzny-Nowa Seria». Here the Polish philosopher makes three main remarks: that hermeneutical researches can and should have critical and demystified functions, about the presence of the sacred in contemporary culture. The third remark made by Miś refers to old mythical images that disappeared, not because they have been forgotten but for various objective reasons.

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