Eliade

[Dave Monroe]

Posted some time back my pynchon List Condensed
Version of ...

Smith, Jonathan Z.  "A Slip in Time Saves Nine:
   Prestigious Origins Again," Chronotypes: The
   Construction of Time, ed. John Bender and David
   E. Wellbery.  Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1991.
   67-76.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=909&sort=thread

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=913&sort=thread

Smith's argument is that Eliade constructs his
opposition of cyclical vs. linear time solely in order
to distinguish (Protestant) Christian temporality from
other religious et al. temporalities as a means to
claiming its unique and perhaps privileged status, but
that he does so on no significant factual basis.  

Smith (U of Chicago, last I heard) has also written on
Joseph Campbell's (and, perhaps, Eliade's as well)
fascist proclivities, but can't recall where.  But
this turned up as I was searching ...

Ellwood, Robert.  The Politics of Myth: A Study of
   C.G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell.
   Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.

http://www.sunypress.edu/sunyp/backads/html/c43051.html

But if anyone can come up with that Smith/Campbell
reference, let me know ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Eliade is an important Pynchon source. As far as I
> know the
> accusation that Eliade was a Nazi is false, but I'm
> not much
> interested in his biography and I have not studied
> Eliade
> the person. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Tainted Greatness: anti-Semitism and Cultural Heroes
> Edited by Nancy Harrowitz (1994)
> In recent years, important cultural figures such as
> Martin
> Luther, Carl Jung, Mircea Eliade, Jean Genet, Ezra
> Pound,
> Martin Heidegger, and Paul de Man have been exposed
> as
> either proponents of, or otherwise tainted by, an
> association with anti-Semitism. This collection of
> essays
> examines that concept of "taintedness" and questions
> whether
> the revelation of prejudice devalues the work of
> those
> regarded as intellectual heroes.  
> 
> McCutcheon, Russell Tracey
> "The Myth of the Apolitical Scholar: The Life and
> Works of
> Mircea Eliade,"
> Queen’s Quarterly 100/3 (1993): 642-663.
> 
> "Methods, Theories, and the Terrors of History:
> Closing the
> Eliadean Era With
> Some Dignity." Reconsidering Eliade, Bryan Rennie
> (ed.),
> SUNY Press.
> 
> "Methods, Theories, and the Terrors of History:
> Closing the
> Eliadean Era With
> Some Dignity." History of the Study of Religion
> Group,
> American Academy of
> Religion, New Orleans, November 24, 1996.
> 
> Bryan Rennie, Reconstructing Eliade (SUNY 1996),
> Religion
> 28/1 (1998): 92-97.
> 
>
http://www.westminster.edu/staff/brennie/eliade/introduction.htm
> 
> http://www.friesian.com/eliade.htm
> 
> http://www.friesian.com/vocab.htm


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