ELIADIAN HERMENEUTICS IN POLAND: STANISLAW TOKARSKI – ELIADE AND THE WEST
ELIADIAN HERMENEUTICS IN POLAND: STANISLAW TOKARSKI – ELIADE AND THE WEST

Summary/Abstract: tanisław Tokarski, Polish professor at The Institute of Middle and Far Eastern Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, wrote a book entitled “Eliade and Orient”, published in 1984 by Ossolineum Publishing House in Wrocław, and received with a great interest by the part of the specialist audience. In his work, Tokarski focuses mainly on Eliade's philosophical side that tends to Orient, analysing “Traité d'histoire des religions” - a source of inspiration for many foreign philosophers and historians of religion, including those from Poland. This book is also a kind of monograph dedicated to this scientist, it constitutes the general reflection from anthropological and religious perspective, the analysis of Eliade's studies on shamanism and yoga. Presenting his biographical details to the Polish public, as well as the most significant scientific works of the great Romanian philosopher and writer, Tokarski mentions the Polish scientists who collaborated with Eliade, who applied his conceptions in their research and those who wrote about his essays. In our paper, we present the structure of this book, its analysis, thus showing the different ways of Mircea Eliade’s perception in Poland.

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