The concept of "hierophany" is presented in a book which discusses the function of (*) myth as essentially propagating this concept; that book is by Mircea Eliade.
Louis-Auguste Blanqui's formulation of this concept is compared with that of another thinker and drawn upon to help understand Parisian architecture in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project. This concept, which is explained to a dwarf who says "all that is straight lies" about a gate, was explained by Walter Kaufmann as envisaging the world reaching its end in every moment as part of a "supra- historical" point of view. The concept of "hierophany" is presented in a book which discusses the function of (*) myth as essentially propagating this concept; that book is by Mircea Eliade. This concept, which is commonly symbolized by an ouroboros, is explained via a prophet's discussion of the path of the soul in Also Sprach Zarathustra. For 10 points, identify this Nietzschean concept of a finite number of events occurring repeatedly across time.
Louis-Auguste Blanqui's formulation of this concept is compared with that of another thinker and drawn upon to help understand Parisian architecture in Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project.
eternal return [or eternal recurrence; prompt on immortality of the soul]