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Duane Elgin’s Concept of the Living Universe from the Perspective of Neo-Romanticization

Data publikacji: 27.09.2018

Studia Religiologica, 2017, Tom 50, Numer 4, s. 359 - 372

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.17.023.8757

Autorzy

Andrzej Kasperek
University of Silesia in Katowice
, Polska
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-5153 Orcid
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Tytuły

Duane Elgin’s Concept of the Living Universe from the Perspective of Neo-Romanticization

Abstrakt

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. 

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Informacje: Studia Religiologica, 2017, Tom 50, Numer 4, s. 359 - 372

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

Tytuły:

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Duane Elgin’s Concept of the Living Universe from the Perspective of Neo-Romanticization
Angielski:
Duane Elgin’s Concept of the Living Universe from the Perspective of Neo-Romanticization

Autorzy

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-5153

Andrzej Kasperek
University of Silesia in Katowice
, Polska
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-5153 Orcid
Wszystkie publikacje autora →

University of Silesia in Katowice
Polska

Publikacja: 27.09.2018

Status artykułu: Otwarte __T_UNLOCK

Licencja: CC BY-NC-ND  ikona licencji

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