RT Article
T1 Mircea Eliade e la realtà dei poteri paranormali
JF Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
VO 81
IS 2
SP 689
OP 757
A1 Ermacora, Davide
LA Italian
PB Morcelliana
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/185078874X
AB In 1937 Mircea Eliade published the article Folclorul ca instrument de cunoaştere («Folklore as an instrument of knowledge») in which he affirmed the need to investigate the reality of paranormal phenomena (levitation, the body's ability to resist fire etc.). This text was little read in the West until the late 1970s, when a French translation appeared. The present study is an updated contribution to this peculiar chapter in Eliade's intellectual history. Through a critical dialogue with some recent publications and trying to contextualize the article through Eliade's work on India, I will take into consideration several crucial aspects in the making of the Romanian scholar: 1) his early works from the 1920s, as harbingers of the 1937 article; 2) the relationship between Eliade and Ernesto de Martino (1908-1965) concerning the reality of magical powers; 3) and his formative relations with Giovanni Papini (1881-1956) and Vittorio Macchioro (1880-1958), decisive in Eliade's early Italian intellectual formation. Finally, relying on unpublished material from the Macchioro Archive at the University of Trieste, I analyze Macchioro's interest in spiritualism, the paranormal and the academic study and spread of yoga in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. (English)
K1 De Martino, Ernesto, 1908-1965
K1 Eliade, Mircea, 1907-1986
K1 Ernesto De Martino
K1 Intellectual History
K1 Mircea Eliade
K1 Papini, Giovanni, 1881-1956
K1 Parapsychology
K1 Vittorio Macchioro
K1 Yoga