TY - JOUR TI - Duane Elgin’s Concept of the Living Universe from the Perspective of Neo-Romanticization AU - Kasperek, Andrzej TI - Duane Elgin’s Concept of the Living Universe from the Perspective of Neo-Romanticization AB - The article is aimed at analysing Duane Elgin’s concept of the living universe from the standpoint of neo-Romanticization. The analysis is based on an understanding of Romanticism as an epoch of reinterpretation of the Western esoteric tradition. The author notices in Elgin’s works the presence of ideas that were popularized in the Romantic period, thus emphasizing the motif of esoteric inspirations in his oeuvre. By turning against the idea of a non-living universe, understood as a mechanism, Elgin continues the esoteric tradition, the major ideas of which are organicism, holism and evolutionism. His works (and activity) discussed in this study are treated as factors of social change.  VL - 2017 IS - Tom 50, Numer 4 PY - 2018 SN - 0137-2432 C1 - 2084-4077 SP - 359 EP - 372 DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.17.023.8757 UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-religiologica/artykul/duane-elgins-concept-of-the-living-universe-from-the-perspective-of-neo-romanticization KW - Duane Elgin KW - living universe KW - occulture KW - neo-Romanticization KW - voluntary simplicity movement ; Duane Elgin KW - żywy wszechświat KW - okultura KW - neoromantyzacja KW - ruch dobrowolnej prostoty