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Book La crise du monde moderne

Download or read book La crise du monde moderne written by René Guénon and published by FV Éditions. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Si lon dit que le monde moderne subit une crise, ce que lon entend par là le plus habituellement, cest quil est parvenu à un point critique, ou, en dautres termes, quune transformation plus ou moins profonde est imminente, quun changement dorientation devra inévitablement se produire à brève échéance, de gré ou de force, dune façon plus ou moins brusque, avec ou sans catastrophe. Cette acception est parfaitement légitime et correspond bien à une partie de ce que nous pensons nous-même, mais à une partie seulement, car, pour nous, et en nous plaçant à un point de vue plus général, cest toute lépoque moderne, dans son ensemble, qui représente pour le monde une période de crise; il semble dailleurs que nous approchions du dénouement, et cest ce qui rend plus sensible aujourdhui que jamais le caractère anormal de cet état de choses qui dure depuis quelques siècles, mais dont les conséquences navaient pas encore été aussi visibles quelles le sont maintenant.L'Occident a grand besoin dêtre défendu, mais uniquement contre lui-même, contre ses propres tendances qui, si elles sont poussées jusquau bout, le mèneront inévitablement à la ruine et à la destruction.

Book La crise du monde moderne

Download or read book La crise du monde moderne written by René Guénon and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Lorsque nous avons, il y a quelques années, écrit Orient et Occident, nous pensions avoir donné, sur les questions qui faisaient l’objet de ce livre, toutes les indications utiles, pour le moment tout au moins. Depuis lors, les événements sont allés en se précipitant avec une vitesse toujours croissante, et, sans nous faire changer d’ailleurs un seul mot à ce que nous disions alors, ils rendent opportunes certaines précisions complémentaires et nous amènent à développer des points de vue sur lesquels nous n’avions pas cru nécessaire d’insister tout d’abord. Ces précisions s’imposent d’autant plus que nous avons vu s’affirmer de nouveau, en ces derniers temps, et sous une forme assez agressive, quelques-unes des confusions que nous nous sommes déjà attaché précisément à dissiper ; tout en nous abstenant soigneusement de nous mêler à aucune polémique, nous avons jugé bon de remettre les choses au point une fois de plus. Il est, dans cet ordre, des considérations, même élémentaires, qui semblent tellement étrangères à l’immense majorité de nos contemporains, que, pour les leur faire comprendre, il ne faut pas se lasser d’y revenir à maintes reprises, en les présentant sous leurs différents aspects, et en expliquant plus complètement, à mesure que les circonstances le permettent, ce qui peut donner lieu à des difficultés qu’il n’était pas toujours possible de prévoir du premier coup."

Book La Crise Du Monde Moderne  The Crisis of the Modern World     Translated by Arthur Osborne

Download or read book La Crise Du Monde Moderne The Crisis of the Modern World Translated by Arthur Osborne written by René GUÉNON and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crisis of the Modern World

Download or read book The Crisis of the Modern World written by René Guénon and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, René Guénon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and 'call-to-action'. The Crisis of the Modern World was his most direct and complete application of traditional metaphysical principles-particularly that of the 'age of darkness' preceding the end of the present world-to social criticism, surpassed only by The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, his magnum opus. In the present work Guénon ruthlessly exposes the 'Western deviation': its loss of tradition, its exaltation of action over knowledge, its rampant individualism and general social chaos. His response to these conditions was not 'activist', however, but purely intellectual, envisioning the coming together of Western intellectual leaders capable under favorable circumstances of returning the West to its traditional roots, most likely via the Catholic Church, or, under less favorable ones, of at least preserving the 'seeds' of Tradition for the time to come.

Book La Crise du Monde Moderne   Ren   Gu  non   Oeuvre Compl  te et Illustr

Download or read book La Crise du Monde Moderne Ren Gu non Oeuvre Compl te et Illustr written by René Guénon and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Un des caractères particuliers du monde moderne, c'est la scission qu'on y remarque entre l'Orient et l'Occident. Il peut y avoir une sorte d'équivalence entre des civilisations de formes très différentes, dès lors qu'elles reposent toutes sur les mêmes principes fondamentaux, dont elles représentent seulement des applications conditionnées par des circonstances variées. Tel est le cas de toutes les civilisations que nous pouvons appeler normales, ou encore traditionnelles ; il n'y a entre elles aucune opposition essentielle, et les divergences, s'il en existe, ne sont qu'extérieures et superficielles. Par contre, une civilisation qui ne reconnaît aucun principe supérieur, qui n'est même fondée en réalité que sur une négation des principes, est par là même dépourvue de tout moyen d'entente avec les autres, car cette entente, pour être vraiment profonde et efficace, ne peut s'établir que par en haut, c'est-à-dire précisément par ce qui manque à cette civilisation anormale et déviée. Dans l'état présent du monde, nous avons donc, d'un côté, toutes les civilisations qui sont demeurées fidèles à l'esprit traditionnel, et qui sont les civilisations orientales, et, de l'autre, une civilisation proprement anti-traditionnelle, qui est la civilisation occidentale moderne. "

Book Against the Modern World

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  • Author : Mark J. Sedgwick
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0195396014
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Against the Modern World written by Mark J. Sedgwick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of religious studies in the United States, touching the lives of many individuals. French writer Rene Guenon rejected modernity as a dark age and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy - the central truths behind all the major world religions. Guenon stressed the urgent need for the West's remaining spiritual and intellectual elite to find personal and collective salvation in the surviving vestiges of ancient religious traditions. A number of disenchanted intellectuals responded to his call. In Europe, America, and the Islamic world, Traditionalists founded institutes, Sufi brotherhoods, Masonic lodges, and secret societies. Some attempted unsuccessfully to guide Fascism and Nazism along Traditionalist lines; others later participated in political terror in Italy. Traditionalist ideas were the ideological cement for the alliance of anti-democratic forces in post-Soviet Russia, and in the Islamic world entered the debate about the relationship between Islam and modernity. Although its appeal in the West was ultimately limited, Traditionalism has wielded enormous influence in religious studies, through the work of such Traditionalists as Ananda Coomaraswamy, Huston Smith, Mircea Eliade, and Seyyed Hossein Nasr.

Book La crise du monde moderne

Download or read book La crise du monde moderne written by René Guénon and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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  • Publisher : Odile Jacob
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  • ISBN : 2738192661
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chiasmi International 16

Download or read book Chiasmi International 16 written by Aa. Vv. and published by Mimesis. This book was released on 2015-07-01T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merleau-PontyENTRE HIER ET DEMAINBETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROWTRA IERI E DOMANI****dossiers – special sections – dossiersMerleau -Ponty demainMerleau -Ponty TomorrowMerleau -Ponty domaniMerleau -Ponty et la philosophie classique allemandeMerleau -Ponty and Classical German PhilosophyMerleau -Ponty e la filosofia classica tedesca****varia – diverse – varia****COMPTES RENDUS – REVIEWS – RECENSIONItextes de – texts by – testi diJacopo Bodini, Guillaume Carron, Frank Chouraqui, Anna Caterina Dalmasso, Guy-Félix Duportail, Faustino Fabbianelli, Véronique M. Fóti, Anne Gléonec, Koji Hirose, Kathleen Hulley, Takashi Kakuni, Stefan Kristensen, Donald A. Landes, Len Lawlor, Laura McMahon, Stefano Micali, David Morris, Angelica Nuzzo, Claudio Rozzoni, Ted Toadvine, Dylan Trigg, Luca Vanzago

Book The Crisis of Modernity

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  • Author : Augusto Del Noce
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2014-12-01
  • ISBN : 0773596747
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book The Crisis of Modernity written by Augusto Del Noce and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his native Italy Augusto Del Noce is regarded as one of the preeminent political thinkers and philosophers of the period after the Second World War. The Crisis of Modernity makes available for the first time in English a selection of Del Noce's essays and lectures on the cultural history of the twentieth century. Del Noce maintained that twentieth-century history must be understood specifically as a philosophical history, because Western culture was profoundly affected by the major philosophies of the previous century such as idealism, Marxism, and positivism. Such philosophies became the secular, neo-gnostic surrogate of Christianity for the European educated classes after the French Revolution, and the next century put them to the practical test, bringing to light their ultimate and necessary consequences. One of the first thinkers to recognize the failure of Marxism, Del Noce posited that this failure set the stage for a new secular, technocratic society that had taken up Marx’s historical materialism and atheism while rejecting his revolutionary doctrine. Displaying Del Noce's rare ability to reconstruct intellectual genealogies and to expose the deep metaphysical premises of social and political movements, The Crisis of Modernity presents an original reading of secularization, scientism, the sexual revolution, and the history of modern Western culture.

Book Modernity and Nostalgia

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  • Author : Romy Golan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300063509
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Modernity and Nostalgia written by Romy Golan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golan argues that reactionary issues such as anti-urbanism, the return to the soil, regionalism, corporatism, xenophobia, and doubts about the new technology became central to cultural and art-historical discourse. Focusing on the overlap of avant-garde and middle-of-the-road production, she investigates the import of these issues not only in, painting, sculpture, and architecture (concentrating on the work of Leger, Picasso, Le Corbusier, Ozenfant, Derain, the Surrealists, and the so-called naifs), but also in the decorative arts, in the spectacle of world and colonial fairs, and in literature. Throughout she finds evidence that artists turned from the aesthetics of the machine age toward a more organic, naturalistic art. This leads her to ask whether the famous and momentous shift of the avant-garde from Paris to New York in 1939 did not, in fact, begin two decades earlier, in 1918.

Book Being in the World

Download or read book Being in the World written by Fred Dallmayr and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition, community, and pride are fundamental aspects of the history of Appalachia, and the language of the region is a living testament to its rich heritage. Despite the persistence of unflattering stereotypes and cultural discrimination associated with their style of speech, Appalachians have organized to preserve regional dialects -- complex forms of English peppered with words, phrases, and pronunciations unique to the area and its people. Talking Appalachian examines these distinctive speech varieties and emphasizes their role in expressing local history and promoting a shared identity. Beginning with a historical and geographical overview of the region that analyzes the origins of its dialects, this volume features detailed research and local case studies investigating their use. The contributors explore a variety of subjects, including the success of African American Appalachian English and southern Appalachian English speakers in professional and corporate positions. In addition, editors Amy D. Clark and Nancy M. Hayward provide excerpts from essays, poetry, short fiction, and novels to illustrate usage. With contributions from well-known authors such as George Ella Lyon and Silas House, this balanced collection is the most comprehensive, accessible study of Appalachian language available today.

Book Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola

Download or read book Social and Political Thought of Julius Evola written by Paul Furlong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius Evola’s writing covered a vast range of subjects, from a distinctive and categorical ideological outlook and has been extremely influential on a significant number of extreme right thinkers, activists and organisations. This book is the first full length study in English to present his political thought to a wider audience, beyond that of his followers and sympathisers, and to bring into the open the study of a neglected strand of contemporary Western thought, that of traditionalism. Evola deserves more attention because he is an influential writer. His following comes from an important if largely ignored political movement: activists and commentators whose political positions are, like his, avowedly traditionalist, authoritarian, anti-modern, anti-democratic and anti-liberal. With honourable exceptions, contemporary academic study tends to treat these groups as a minority within a minority, a sub-species of Fascism, from whom they are held to derive their ideas and their support. This work seeks to bring out more clearly the complexity of Evola’s post-war strategy, so as to explain how he can be adopted both by the neo-fascist groups committed to violence, and by groups such as the European New Right whose approach is more aimed at influence from within liberal democracies. Furlong also recognises the relevance of Evola’s ideas to anti-globalisation arguments, including a re-examination of his arguments for detachment and spontaneism (apolitia).

Book International Eliade  The

Download or read book International Eliade The written by and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Occult Imperium

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  • Author : Christian Giudice
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2022-02-03
  • ISBN : 0197610242
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Occult Imperium written by Christian Giudice and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Giudice's Occult Imperium explores Italian national forms of Occultism, chiefly analyzing Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), his copious writings, and Roman Traditionalism. Trained as a mathematician at the prestigious University of Pisa, Reghini was one of the three giants of occult and esoteric thought in Italy, alongside his colleagues Julius Evola (1898-1974) and Giulian Kremmerz (1861-1930). Using Reghini's articles, books, and letters, as a guide, Giudice explores the interaction between occultism, Traditionalism, and different facets of modernity in early-twentieth-century Italy. The book takes into consideration many factors particular to the Italian peninsula: the ties with avant-garde movements such as the Florentine Scapigliatura and Futurism, the occult vogues typical to Italy, the rise to power of Benito Mussolini and Fascism, and, lastly, the power of the Holy See over different expressions of spirituality. Occult Imperium explores the convergence of new forms of spirituality in early twentieth-century Italy.

Book Gods of Love and Ecstasy

Download or read book Gods of Love and Ecstasy written by Alain Daniélou and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dani鬯u examines the earliest traditions of the Hindu and Greek gods of magical power, ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence.