Cosmological bridges. Suspicion and revelation in the realities of myth

PABLO WRIGHT Y CÉSAR CERIANI CERNADAS

The International Eliade

SUNY University Press

Lugar: Albany; Año: 2007; p. 23 - 36

This article explores the dimensions of myth analyzed by Mircea Eliade, placing them within the hermeneutic field, as it was proposed by Paul Ricoeur. In his reading of the process of symbol production and interpretation, Ricoeur identified two main perspectives to assess that process. On the one hand, revelation, showed in Eliade, van der Leeuw and R. Otto’s phenomenology of religion; on the other, suspicion, expressed by the work of Marx, Freud and Nietzsche. This analytical framework allows us to play with the metaphor of surface and depth to creatively read how Eliade approached myths, symbols, and meaning, appraising also the direct and indirect connections with other explorers of myth, such as C. Lévi-Strauss, his theoretical antagonist and master of an epistemology of the profound.