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- Title
Tradition and Presupposition in Collingwood and Eliade.
- Authors
Ţabrea, Dana
- Abstract
There are different authors, such as Heikki Saari (1998), who considered Collingwood's emotivist theory of magic. Also, Collingwood's Folk Tales Manuscripts were published in 2005 (see The Philosophy of Enchantment). Yet, no one dared to exploit them for a larger view of his theory of presuppositions. I am the first to assume this dare. My pretext is a careful reading of the Folk Tales Manuscripts, together with Eliade's works on anthropology and archaic cultures. This way I have discovered that Eliade made a point that Collingwood himself did not make but that can be read between the lines if we consider his Folk Tales Manuscripts in the new light of the theory of presuppositions systematically exposed in his Essay on Metaphysics. My thesis is a very simple one: There are presuppositions of the archaic thought (the beliefs of the archaic man), just as there are presuppositions of our modern thought, and there is no way we can neglect it.
- Subjects
THEORY; MAGIC; ANTHROPOLOGY; METAPHYSICS; PRESUPPOSITION (Logic); SAARI, Heikki; TALE (Literary form)
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2012, Vol 2012, Issue 12, p156
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article