The Crisis of the Modern World

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Rene Guenon

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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, Ren� Gu�non 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 Gu�non 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.

Release date Australia

May 22nd, 2004

Author

Rene Guenon

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Contributors

Translated by M Arthur Osborne
Translated by Marco Pallis

Edition

4th Rev ed.

Illustrations

black & white illustrations

Pages

136

Dimensions

152x229x11

ISBN-13

9780900588501

Product ID

1836597

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