ABSTRACT
Since the early 1980s a number of allegations have been made regarding the personal politics of Mircea Eliade. In many regards, the “Eliade affair” is similar to other cases of notable European intellectuals of the inter-war generation whose youthful, political pasts emerged long after they had established themselves as influential figures in their respective scholarly fields. For instance, consider the following two quotations:
the Jew, who is something of a nomad, has never yet created a cultural form of his own … since all his instincts and talents require a more or less civilized nation to act as a host for their development.
