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Topic:
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The "perennial" Kierkegaard:
the great Dane seen through the glasses of Mircea Eliade
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Speaker:
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Igor Tavilla, Ph.D
Philosophy and History Teacher
Parma, Italy
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Time:
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Friday, December 3, 2021
7:15 pm - 8:45 pm (Toronto time) EDT
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Place:
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Virtual meeting. Request Zoom link by emailing khanah@chass.utoronto.ca
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Inquiry:
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Professor Abrahim H. Khan
Trinity College
Tel. 416 978-3039 (O), 416 978-2133(off. asst)
E-mail:khanah@chass.utoronto.ca
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Igor Tavilla (Ph.D. Univ. of Parma, Italy) has been dealing with the Romanian philosophy in the interwar period, regarding Nae Ionescu's experientialism. As a translator he edited various translations from Danish and Romanian to Italian language. Among his publications include Intuitionism in Romanian philosophy: the mystical experientialism of Nae Ionescu (2021); Knowledge of God and internalization of faith in SØren Kierkegaard's thought (2017); Typical sense and prophecy. Towards a definition of the biblical foundation of the category of Gjentagelse (2012). He attended the roundtable on Kierkegaard's Works of love during the XXIV World Congress of Philosophy (Beijing 2018) and presented on various Kierkegaard's topics at symposia promoted by CERISK (Central Europe Research Institute SØren Kierkegaard, Ljubljana.
ABSTRACT
In his Portuguese Journal (1941-1945) Mircea Eliade confessed his twofold attraction both towards archaic wisdom (philosophia perennis) and SØren Kierkegaard's existential thought. According to the Romanian Historian of religions, Kierkegaard's works contain themes and motifs of pre-modern religiosity. My presentation will draw attention to the following: Selfhood and Subjective Truth, Sacrifice, Imitation, the Moment and Repetition. To point out similarities and differences between archaic religious mentality and Kierkegaard's view of Christianity, I will focus mainly on Cosmos and History. The myth of the Eternal Return (1949), that Eliade started editing in 1945, at the end of his Portuguese period.
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