“Mephistopheles and Androgyne” is one of the key works in the work of one of the most original thinkers of the XX century. Mircea Eliade . Written in the late 1950s. It has had a significant impact on a wide variety of intellectual currents and schools, causing fierce debate both about the essence of the concept outlined in the book and about the identity of the author himself. Deliberately deviating from the main line of development of Western philosophy as a whole, Eliade makes his reader take a new look at familiar things. A particular task of this study, according to the author, is "to illustrate the approach of a historian of religion, trying to give an interpretation to a number of types of religious behavior and spiritual values inherent in non-Europeans." Published in Russian for the first time. For a wide range of readers. http://fb2. traumlibrary. net