Abstract

VIEIRA, Otávio Santana  and  CAVALCANTI, Carlos André Macêdo. Gilbert Durand and the hermeticism: Religionism, tradition and esotericism. Rev. NUFEN [online]. 2020, vol.12, n.1, pp. 123-142. ISSN 2175-2591.  http://dx.doi.org/10.26823/RevistadoNUFEN.vol12.nº01ensaio55.

In this work we want to present Gilbert Durand's contribution to the studies of Hermeticism. In some of his work, we will highlight the aspects in which Hermeticism becomes both an object of investigation and an epistemological basis. Gilbert Durand follows paths that forge with important authors for the emergence of academic research on Western esotericism such as Henry Corbin, Antoine Faivre, C. G. Jung, among others. In Science de l'homme et Tradition [1975], Durand develops a series of arguments about a new epistemological organization for the sciences of man. Hermeticism and the notion of similitude play a central role in his work, and therefore Hermeticism is the new anthropological spirit, which is the subtitle of the work. In La Foi du Cordonnier and Introduction à la mythodologie, the author takes up some of these assumptions. In these works we can perceive the religionist character that until then shaped the studies on esotericism. At this time, overvalued notions, such as tradition, played common ground and composed the academic and non-academic discourse, as well as the avant-garde and desecularization character which these theories presented themselves, highlighting the close relationship between these subjects in an esoteric milieu and a strong internalism or the emic character of his speech.

Keywords : epistemology; imaginary; anthropology.

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