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Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder de Bruce Lincoln

Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder

Autor Bruce Lincoln
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mar 2024

Găsim în Secrets, Lies, and Consequences o perspectivă documentară riguroasă asupra unuia dintre cele mai întunecate capitole din istoria academică modernă: asasinarea nerezolvată a lui Ioan Petru Culianu. Această lucrare aduce un element de noutate absolută prin analiza directă a setului de documente pe care Culianu le-a predat autorului Bruce Lincoln pentru siguranță, cu doar câteva zile înainte de a fi ucis în incinta University of Chicago Divinity School. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Lincoln decodifică aceste „hârtii misterioase” — traduceri ale unor articole de tinerețe în care Mircea Eliade își exprima afinitățile pentru Mișcarea Legionară.

Putem afirma că volumul depășește cadrul unei simple biografii, devenind o investigație despre memorie, complicitate și prețul adevărului istoric. Cititorii familiarizați cu Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu de Ted Anton vor aprecia faptul că Lincoln nu se limitează la ipotezele politice ale crimei, ci pătrunde adânc în arhive pentru a arăta cum trecutul nedeclarat al lui Mircea Eliade a creat tensiuni iremediabile între acesta, moștenitorii săi legali și discipolul său cel mai dotat. Față de abordarea lui Moshe Idel din Mircea Eliade: From Magic to Myth, care se concentrează pe evoluția ideilor, Lincoln este mult mai tranșant în privința responsabilității politice și a eforturilor de ocultare a biografiei.

Structura narativă îmbină precizia academică cu tensiunea unui dosar de investigație, analizând motivele pentru care publicarea acestor texte a fost blocată sistematic. Bruce Lincoln folosește autoritatea sa de istoric al religiilor pentru a contextualiza nu doar opera, ci și tăcerile care au definit „Școala de la Chicago”. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege cum biografia personală poate influența radical receptarea unei discipline umaniste.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197689103
ISBN-10: 0197689108
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 236 x 164 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este indispensabilă pentru cei interesați de istoria intelectuală a României și de moștenirea lui Mircea Eliade. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a legăturii dintre mediul academic și jocurile politice de culise, totul prin prisma unor documente care au stat ascunse decenii. Este o recomandare fermă pentru oricine dorește să exploreze adevărul din spatele asasinării lui Ioan Petru Culianu și dilemele etice ale cercetării istorice.

Despre autor

Bruce Lincoln este profesor emerit „Caroline E. Haskell” de istoria religiilor la Universitatea din Chicago, fiind una dintre cele mai respectate voci în studiul mitului și al religiei. Afiliat departamentelor de Antropologie și Studii Medievale, Lincoln și-a dedicat cariera analizării modului în care discursul religios este utilizat pentru a construi sau a contesta autoritatea politică. În lucrări anterioare precum Theorizing Myth, el a explorat modul în care categoriile ideologice modelează narațiunile culturale. Această expertiză îi permite să abordeze cazul Eliade-Culianu cu o rigoare critică superioară, fiind el însuși un martor direct al atmosferei academice de la Chicago în perioada evenimentelor descrise.

Descriere

The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect themIn early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had fled his native Romania and established himself as a widely admired scholar at just forty-one years of age. He was teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School where he was seen as the heir apparent to his mentor, Mircea Eliade, a fellow Romanian expatriate and the founding father of the field of religious studies, who had died a few years earlier. But then Culianu began to receive threatening messages. As his fears grew, he asked a colleague to hold onto some papers for safekeeping. A week later, Culianu was in a Divinity School men's room when someone fired a bullet into the back of his head, killing him instantly. The case was never solved, though the prevailing theory is that Culianu was targeted by the Romanian secret police as a result of critical articles he wrote after the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.What was in those mysterious papers? And what connection might they have to Culianu's death? The papers eventually passed into the hands of Bruce Lincoln, and their story is at the heart of this book. The documents were English translations of articles that Eliade had written in the 1930s, some of which voiced Eliade's support for the Iron Guard, Romania's virulently anti-Semitic mystical fascist movement. Culianu had sought to publish some of these articles but encountered fierce resistance from Eliade's widow. In this book, author Bruce Lincoln explores what the articles reveal about Eliade's past, his subsequent efforts to conceal that past, his complex relations with Culianu, and the possible motives for Culianu's shocking murder.

Recenzii

[A] tantalizing whodunit... This thrilling saga sheds new light on a decades-old mystery.
A brilliant scholar of ancient myth discovers that he was surrounded by hidden aspects of his mentor's life and revisits the enigma of a colleague's murder, still unsolved after 30 years. Bruce Lincoln has undertaken a huge intellectual effort to unearth lies of the past and the conspiracies of the present, conspiracies he witnessed without knowing it, and evidence of which he even mistakenly destroyed. This is a detective enterprise, a deep mystery for which he suggests a novel solution, showing that sometimes reality can surpass fiction.
Bruce Lincoln's approach to Mircea Eliade's youthful relationship with the radical right-wing, anti-Semitic Iron Guard, to his later attempts to conceal it, and to its consequences, is a model of historical analysis. Lincoln offers a close, in-depth reading of a series of documents from a tragic chapter in European history that throws an unexpected light on a case that has been at the center of a heated debate for decades. A page-turner of a book.
Bruce Lincoln's Secrets, Lies, and Consequences provides a unique and microscopic portrait of the intellectual Mircea Eliade's degree of involvement in the Romanian fascist movement of the 1930s. Thus, it brings a very dark period in modern Eastern European history to new light.
Lincoln offers an artful dissection of the possibilities, conducted with the objectivity of a historian and the subjectivity of someone who was there.
[A} riveting narrative...Lincoln lays out and analyzes this troubling material with meticulous objectivity, while also expressing empathy for those devastated by Eliade's web of secrets and lies.
Interesting. [M]uch of 'Secrets, Lies, and Consequences' consists of Mr. Lincoln's painstaking analysis of the evidence and a meticulous documentation of how Culianu subtly tempered his spirited defense of Eliade.
Short yet highly instructive book.
It can be said that Secrets, Lies, and Consequencespoints to the interest that Eliade still rouses among scholars.The publication of this book displays themes less explored inEnglish literature, such as the relationship between the lateEliade and Culianu's short but prodigious career
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences will prove an invaluable resource for students interested in the depths of disciplinary history wrapped up in Culianu's assassination.

Notă biografică

Bruce Lincoln is Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Religions in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He received his BA from Haverford College in 1970 with high honors and his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1976 with distinction. His most recent publications include Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification, 2nd Ed. (2014), Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and With Comparison (2018), and Old Thiess, A Livonian Werewolf (2020, with Carlo Ginzburg).