Ioan Petru Culianu

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Ioan Petru Culianu (5 January 1950 – 21 May 1991).

Ioan Petru Alexandru Culianu or Couliano (1950-1991) was a Romanian historian of religion, culture, and ideas, a philosopher and political essayist, and a short story writer. He graduated Letters in Romania (University of Bucharest), and Religious Studies in Italy (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan), finished his PhD in France (Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV), worked in the Netherlands (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) and finally in the United States of America (University of Chicago Divinity School). Starting as a historical-approach specialist in Gnosticism and Renaissance Magic, Culianu moved in his last years toward a cognitive approach of Religion, to conclude in his last book, The Tree of Gnosis (first published in 1992) that Religion can be described as a game of mind. He served as professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago from 1988 to his death, and had previously taught the history of Romanian culture at the University of Groningen.

Works

(in Romanian unles noted)

Monographs

  • with Gianpaolo Romanato and Mario G. Lombardo, Religione e potere, Turin: Marietti, 1981. (Italian)
    • Religie si putere, trans. Maria-Magdalena Anghelescu and Şerban Anghelescu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1996, Iaşi: Polirom, 2005.
  • Éros et Magie à la Renaissance. 1484, Paris: Flammarion, 1984. (French)
    • Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, trans. Margaret Cook, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1987, PDF, ARG. (English)
    • Eros e magia nel Rinascimento: La congiunzione astrologica del 1484, Milan: Il Saggiatore/ A. Mondadori, 1987. (Italian)
    • Eros y magia en el Renacimiento. 1484, Madrid: Ediciones Siruela, 1999.
    • Eros şi magie în Renaştere. 1484, Bucharest: Nemira, 1994, 2nd ed., 1999; 3rd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2003.
    • Eros und Magie in der Renaissance, Insel Verlag, 2001 PDF. (German)
  • Gnosticismo e pensiero moderno: Hans Jonas, Rome: "L'Erma" di Bretschneider, 1985. [Based on his thesis]. (English)
    • Gnosticism şi gîndire modernă: Hans Jonas, trans. Maria-Magdalena Anghelescu and Şerban Anghelescu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2006 PDF.
  • Mircea Eliade, Assisi: Cittadella Editrice, 1978; 2nd ed., Rome: Settimo Sigillo, 2008. (Italian)
    • Mircea Eliade, Bucharest: Nemira, 1995, 2nd ed., 1998; 3rd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2004.
  • Les Gnoses Dualistes d'occident, Paris: Plon, 1990.
    • The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism, trans. loan P. Couliano and Hillary S. Wiesner, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1992, ARG. (English)
    • Arborele gnozei. Mitologia gnostică de la creştinismul timpuriu la nihilismul modern, Bucharest: Nemira, 1999; 2nd ed., 2005, PDF.
    • Gnozele dualiste ale Occidentului. Istorie şi mituri, trans. Tereza Culianu-Petrescu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2002.
  • Otherworldly Journeys from Gilgamesh to Albert Einstein, Boston and London: Shambhala, 1991, ARG. (English)
    • Călătorii în lumea de dincolo, trans. Gabriela and Andrei Oișteanu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2002.
  • Psihanodia [O prezentare a dovezilor cu privire la ascensiunea celestă a sufletului şi la importanţa acesteia], Bucharest: Nemira, 1997, reprint, Iaşi: Polirom, 2006.
  • Studii româneşti, vol. I, "Fantasmele nihilismului. Secretul Doctorului Eliade", Bucharest: Nemira, 2000; 2nd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2006.
  • Studii româneşti, vol. II, "Soarele şi Luna. Otrăvurile admiraţiei", Iaşi: Polirom, 2009.
  • Experiences del extasis, Barcelona: Paidos Orientalia, 1994. (Spanish)
  • Iocari serio. Ştiinţa şi arta în gîndirea Renaşterii, Iaşi: Polirom, 2003.
  • Cult, magie, erezii. Articole din enciclopedii ale religiilor, Iaşi: Polirom, 2003.
  • Dialoguri întrerupte. Corespondenţă Mircea Eliade - Ioan Petru Culianu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2004.

Novels

  • La collezione di smeraldi, Milan: Jaca Book, 1989.
  • Pergamentul diafan, Bucharest: Nemira, 1994.
  • Pergamentul diafan. Ultimele povestiri, Bucharest: Nemira, 1996; reprint, Iaşi: Polirom, 2002.
  • Hesperus (roman), Bucharest: Univers, 1992; Bucharest: Nemira, 1998; reprint, Iaşi: Polirom, 2004.
  • Arta fugii, Iaşi: Polirom, 2002.
  • with H.S. Wiesner, Jocul de smarald (roman), Iaşi: Polirom, 2005, 2007.
  • Tozgrec (roman), Iaşi: Polirom, 2010.

Colected works

  • Opere Complete Ioan Petru Culianu, Bucharest: Nemira, 1994ff.

Literature

  • Sorin Antohi (eds.), Essays in Memory of Ioan Petru Culianu, 2 vols., Bucharest: Nemira, 2001.
  • Matei Călinescu, Despre Ioan Petru Culianu și Mircea Eliade. Amintiri, lecturi, reflecții, Iași: Polirom, 2002; 2005.
  • Andrei Oişteanu, Religie, politică şi mit. Texte despre Mircea Eliade şi Ioan Petru Culianu, Iași: Polirom, 2007.
  • Horia-Roman Patapievici, Ultimul Culianu, Bucharest: Humanitas, 2010.
  • Balon-Ruff J. Zsolt, Ioan Petru Culianu, studiu monografic, PhD Thesis, 2013.

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