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 - Volume 50 Issue 4
PY - 2018
SN - 0137-2432
C1 - 2084-4077
SP - 359
EP - 372
DO - 10.4467/20844077SR.17.023.8757
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-religiologica/article/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