Dr. Darren Staloff, Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History and Cyclical Time

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  • @MihailGeorgeNeamtu
    @MihailGeorgeNeamtu 2 роки тому +37

    Excellent. Greetings from Bucharest, the city of Mircea Eliade!

  • @garrettdyess1110
    @garrettdyess1110 2 роки тому +14

    Wow. The current world needs more teachers like this.

  • @thattimestampguy
    @thattimestampguy 2 роки тому +34

    Historian of Religion
    0:58 _Cosmos and History and Cyclical Time_
    2:58 Draws on Anthropology
    4:56 Archaic Man and Modern Man
    Cosmos and History
    *Repeated Characteristics*
    5:46 Rituals: Imitations of The Sacred
    6:51 Hero Archetype
    8:10 “He’s the next FDR…carrying that legacy forward.”
    8:45 The Christian Saint, Archetype of Right Living; Bodi Satfas’
    9:46 Unique Moment, BREAKTHROUGH
    10:34 People, Sites, Territories, (New Nations)
    11:28 All Synagouges, All Mosques, Point Towards Holiness
    12:23 Architecture, Cross ✝️☦️
    13:28 Cosmoginy: The Creation of The World
    14:03 Repeating Creation, Cornerstones
    14:45 Divine Model
    16:28 Reliving The Past
    17:17 Herogomy: The Play of Hierarchy, One on Top of Another
    _Rice: Symbol of Fertility_
    18:27 All History is Mysticised
    Archetype: Pattern of Meaning
    19:31 Yugoslavian Epic
    22:20 Regeneration of Time: Cycle of Time
    • 4 Seasons
    • Birth Maturity Old Age Death
    • Year, New Year
    • Creation out of Chaos
    • Rise and Fall
    25:30 War Famine Plague Murder Catastrophe
    25:51 Marriage Child-Bearing Maturity Success
    26:29 Destruction of Past Evil,
    A New Fresh Start
    Degeneration
    Time Undoing, Rebirth
    27:27 🔥
    *Misfortune*
    27:43
    28:10 Good News is No News 🗞🗑
    29:20 “Life From Death”
    Carnivores Vs Vegetarians & Vegans
    The Food Chain
    Life From Death 💀
    31:17 Suffer From Sin
    32:54 Life After Death
    34:09 Over and Over Again
    35:14 Spiritual Warriors
    37:32 Eternal Return _Kali Yuga_
    • Ultimately Meaningless, ergo bearable
    39:50 The Terror Of History

    • @LittleOrla
      @LittleOrla 10 місяців тому

      Thank you ☺️

  • @enlightenedanalysis
    @enlightenedanalysis 2 роки тому +5

    Thanks Dr. Staloff for an excellent lecture.

  • @eft1978
    @eft1978 2 роки тому +15

    Never expected Eliade being added to your videos! What a treat!

  • @bikasitaacharya220
    @bikasitaacharya220 Рік тому +3

    Thank you for this post. He lived and loved my city Kolkata. Eliade deserves more.

  • @codinginsights122
    @codinginsights122 2 роки тому +13

    Wow!!!
    I cant believe he made something on a Romanian scholar. Amazing stuff to see on this channel!

    • @MrEgo-sl3fp
      @MrEgo-sl3fp 2 роки тому

      Yeah, agreed.
      It really was a pleasant surprise

    • @nanashi7779
      @nanashi7779 6 місяців тому

      Well Eliade is quite a big deal in the theory of Religion

  • @sangwaraumo
    @sangwaraumo 2 роки тому +6

    Great lecture, as always. Thank you for making this available.

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel Рік тому +3

    Reading Eliade changed my life.

  • @teddywest4910
    @teddywest4910 10 місяців тому +3

    Many congratulations ! It's a very decent presentation of the book. Although I am a Romanian , I prefer to read it in the French translation (from the Romanian manuscript).
    "Le mythe de l'éternel retour" (1945-1947)
    Gallimard, Paris, 1949

  • @not_emerald
    @not_emerald 2 роки тому +11

    I've read two Eliade books and both changed my worldview.

    • @magouliana32
      @magouliana32 8 місяців тому +1

      Which ones ?
      What should I start with please ?

  • @mikemcdermott393
    @mikemcdermott393 2 роки тому +23

    Incredible text. Eliade rarely gets the credit he deserves

    • @davidwingate
      @davidwingate Рік тому

      Nor the blame for working for and with the Iron Guard fascists - Great scholar yes -but he sympathized with the Nazis when it counted as did Cioran -and both tried to hide it

  • @ReflectiveJourney
    @ReflectiveJourney 2 роки тому +5

    This lecture predicts the mental health crisis. This is amazing

  • @99jaa
    @99jaa 11 місяців тому +1

    So fascinating. Glad i found you Dr Staloff

  • @maxstone5108
    @maxstone5108 2 роки тому +22

    A character not mentioned enough in broader historical conversation.

  • @sawjjz
    @sawjjz 2 роки тому +1

    Great lecture and I was so amped when he mentions eternal recurrence, thought it would fit into this subject

  • @philosopher2king
    @philosopher2king Рік тому

    I might be mistaken, but this might be from the Historical Theory course by Staloff for the Great Courses. It went out of print many years ago and I've been hunting it down for over a decade. I'm getting so much value out of this channel that I will join its Patreon/Join option.

  • @michaelpattiani7230
    @michaelpattiani7230 2 роки тому +2

    Love these! ❤

  • @slushyslimshady
    @slushyslimshady 2 роки тому +1

    11:15
    Profound. Thank you, sir.

  • @MrMikkyn
    @MrMikkyn 2 роки тому

    This is beautiful. That ending is so true. Now we have Betterhelp and Headspace.

  • @RNCM_Philosophy
    @RNCM_Philosophy 2 роки тому +3

    Pretty sure Dr Sugrue was a student of Mircea Eliade at the University of Chicago

  • @solarsign
    @solarsign 2 роки тому +2

    i appreciate you posting this content!! look forward to your next vid!!
    leave a like and comment for support y’all!!

  • @Cynic1917
    @Cynic1917 Рік тому +2

    It's pronounce "Meer-cha".
    I used to work with a guy who had the same first name.

  • @Vingul
    @Vingul 2 роки тому +3

    Great lecture. Still topical as we are, of course, still in the Kali Yuga -- it's more apparent than ever. I get the impression that the speaker is voicing his own opinion as much as he is giving us Eliade's (and I'm not implying that that's a bad thing). This has reignited my wish to read Eliade's works. Previously I have only read sacred texts anthologised by him.

    • @sangwaraumo
      @sangwaraumo 2 роки тому +1

      Pretty much every generation imagines they're at the Kali Yuga.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul 2 роки тому

      ​@@sangwaraumo the Kali Yuga is said to last for about 432,000 years, so I'd say quite a few generations in a row can claim that and be right.. hehe.
      I don't mean it that literally (in terms of the number of years and so on) but Western civilisation is certainly on a massive downturn, while others may not be.

    • @sangwaraumo
      @sangwaraumo 2 роки тому +2

      @@Vingul I believe that ever since the advent of language, we have had people thinking they're at history's end. Life has been miserable for a good chunk of humanity since the whole chebang - as it is for most animals.
      And while we're not doing much better than the last generation, there are some improvements. Sure we need to put some effort for a better world, but the one we have isn't so bad.

    • @Vingul
      @Vingul 2 роки тому +1

      @@sangwaraumo I’m not saying we’re in a bad world, but in bad times. I’m also not saying we’re at the end of history.

    • @sangwaraumo
      @sangwaraumo 2 роки тому

      @@Vingul OK, I understand. And I am saying our times are not worse than most of our history.

  • @Star-yz2rn
    @Star-yz2rn 2 роки тому

    31:27 After watching the Vico video, I interpret the killing of the goddess which produces the banana plant as a client (famuli) uprising against the patriachs which secures more freedoms, in this case food.

  • @Andrew_Cotton
    @Andrew_Cotton 2 роки тому +1

    Dude you've more than adequately learned your craft from Dr. Sugrue

  • @abdelrahmanmustafa8937
    @abdelrahmanmustafa8937 8 місяців тому

    These ideas would be immensely useful in AI and Machine design

  • @dialaskisel5929
    @dialaskisel5929 2 роки тому +4

    "His prediction is that we will end up giving huge amounts of money to psychiatrists and psychologists" XD that made me giggle.

  • @zicada7661
    @zicada7661 2 роки тому +1

    Maybe someone could help sync the audio to the video before they're released. These vids deserve as much imo

    • @lsdc1
      @lsdc1 2 роки тому

      Yes, and some need a little work in noise suppression. I am confident that people - given the opportunity- would be willing to offer their skills to improve the technical aspects of these valuable lectures.

  • @alexgabriel5423
    @alexgabriel5423 Рік тому

    Is the belief in Reincarnation an example of belief in the myth of the eternal return based on cyclical time?

  • @RocketKirchner
    @RocketKirchner 2 роки тому +2

    Eliade came out of the Romanian intensity intelligentsia of em Cioran , Petra Tutrea , Inenesco and others .

  • @alexgabriel5423
    @alexgabriel5423 Рік тому

    The Video is Out of sync with the soundtrack of the speech. ☆☆☆

  • @alexpope7
    @alexpope7 Рік тому +2

    Greatest Romanian ever! 😊😁

  • @hermanhale9258
    @hermanhale9258 7 днів тому

    Time is linear, so... The Babylonians had the Akitu New Year's Festival, I don't think it had the Saturnalia type reversal of roles as in Rome. Marduk fought Tiamat, conquering chaos.

  • @RaHeadD10
    @RaHeadD10 Рік тому

    He was definitely influenced here by Spengler and Nietzsche which bring back the conversation of a cyclic view of history in the Western Canon.

  • @alexgabriel5423
    @alexgabriel5423 Рік тому +2

    Prounouncing Mircea Eliade-----'Mircea>> meercha///Eliade>> ayliadeh

  • @christiansather8438
    @christiansather8438 2 роки тому

    Dang Eliade has influenced a lot I’m now realizing. This all felt like review but I’ve yet to get to Eliade on my bookshelf. And does anyone know how to really pronounce his name?

    • @dreioo8759
      @dreioo8759 2 роки тому

      I'll try to write it phonetically:
      Mear-tcha
      Elly-ah-deh

    • @teddywest4910
      @teddywest4910 10 місяців тому

      Yes, around 25 million people. They're called Romanians (including the Moldovans).

  • @RocketKirchner
    @RocketKirchner 2 роки тому +2

    Proponents of linear history : st Augustine , Hegel , Marx .

    • @draw4everyone
      @draw4everyone 9 місяців тому

      Marx? No. Primitive accumulation is a consequence of a primitive communism. Communism is man's return to paradise.
      Hegel? No. The absolute is the pure Nothing ("Das Nichts"), the Being that has Become. It has returned to itself as Everything, ("Die Alles") which has no difference, and is therefore Nothing at all.
      Augustine? Yes.

  • @ThinkBoat
    @ThinkBoat 7 місяців тому

    ! To see the awesome muslims contrasted with the benign British go to 39:40

  • @MNMLSTN
    @MNMLSTN 2 роки тому

    Mircea*

  • @Johannes-f6i
    @Johannes-f6i Місяць тому

    Never forget that Eliade basically copy pasted René Guénon and built his research on that basis

  • @marcobrambilla2439
    @marcobrambilla2439 2 роки тому +1

    Eliade - Cioran - Ionesco. How I would have loved a cup of coffee in a bistrot on Paris with those 3 guys

  • @shaunkerr8721
    @shaunkerr8721 2 роки тому

    "Make a return to the GREAT times"
    Hmm...

  • @heatblast5727
    @heatblast5727 2 роки тому

    Came from prakhar k pravachan

  • @Star-yz2rn
    @Star-yz2rn 2 роки тому

    Universal conflagration = the big crunch

  • @HelenBrown-s1j
    @HelenBrown-s1j 4 місяці тому

    Clark Sharon Lewis Deborah Gonzalez Amy

  • @christinemartin63
    @christinemartin63 Рік тому

    And ... in case God does not exist, where do these theories and arguments go? Dang me, on what a huge assumption does this historian-philosopher's ideas hinge.

  • @1995yuda
    @1995yuda 2 роки тому

    Once again wee learn that the Hebrews nailed it while the rest of humanity was still climbing trees and worshipping the Moon. Astonishing.

    • @pinecone9045
      @pinecone9045 Рік тому

      They've done well for a racist cult yeah.

  • @anthonyparker2869
    @anthonyparker2869 Рік тому +3

    It's motonony to you because you hate yourself and have lost your spirituality. Novelty is of the spirit, not the flesh. It's yourself that you are bored with, not your circumstances.

  • @anthonyparker2869
    @anthonyparker2869 Рік тому

    This should be the only thing you care about Jenny. And this is in our Marriage.