V monografii issleduetsya fenomen vechnogo vozvrashcheniya v sisteme mifologicheskikh i religioznykh koordinat. Yavlyayas" samodostatochnym elementom chelovecheskogo bytiya, on po pravu vystupaet predtechey tsiklicheskoy paradigmy kul"tury. Svoi istoki dannyy fenomen beret v sakralizatsii prirodnykh tsiklov. Po mere reduktsii mifologicheskoy paradigmy on ne tol"ko sokhranyaet mifopoeticheskie osnovaniya, no i obnaruzhivaet v svoem soderzhanii yavno vyrazhennye metafizicheskie ottenki. Sintez mifopoeticheskikh osnovaniy i metafizicheskogo soderzhaniya fenomena vechnogo vozvrashcheniya privodit k ego protivorechivomu vospriyatiyu, opredmechennomu kak v konstruktivnykh, tak i destruktivnykh formakh kul"tury.