Hayot, 191 (in footnote): "The notion that 'we' inheritors of the Christian worldview believe in a unique history (and its accompanying unique personalities), as opposed to those premoderns and primitives who thought history moved in circles, should be familiar enough; it was after all the priciple behind much mid-twentieth-century anthropology of the Mircea Eliade type. See, for instance, Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History"
This sounds not entirely like a favorable interpretation of Eliade's analysis, but Hayot does not really elaborate