Against The Modern World: Traditionalism And The Secret Intel
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Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an influential yet surprisingly little-known twentieth century anti-modernist movement. Involving a number of important, yet often secret, religious groups in the West and Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and religious studies in the United States. Emerging from the 'discovery'...
Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an influential yet surprisingly little-known twentieth century anti-modernist movement. Involving a number of important, yet often secret, religious groups in the West and Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and religious studies in the United States. Emerging from the 'discovery'...
Description:
Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an influential yet surprisingly little-known twentieth century anti-modernist movement. Involving a number of important, yet often secret, religious groups in the West and Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and religious studies in the United States. Emerging from the 'discovery' in the West of non-Western religious writings, at a time in the nineteeth century when progressive intellectuals had lost faith in the ability of Christianity to deliver religious and spiritual truth, it was fuelled by the widespread religious scepticism that followed World War I. It found its voice in Rene Guenon, a French writer who rejected modernity as a dark age, and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy - the fundamental truth uniting all the world's religions. Mark Sedgwick reveals how this pervasive intellectual movement helped shape major events in twentieth century religious life, politics and scholarship - all the while remaining invisible to outsiders.
Review:
Sedgwick's scholarship regarding Traditionalists themselves is exhaustive and admirable ... Sedgwick contributes an introduction and overview of an otherwise little-known, but important, moment in modern intellectual history. Colin Beech, Journal of World History ... a wealth of information on the lives of the Traditionalists ... This book is a valuable companion to their works, a comprehensive and neutrally presented archive of the personalities and authors, along with their political activities and personal lives. Financial Times Magazine - Weekend Against the Modern World is a valuable and comprehensive effort by a non-Traditionalist to chronicle this fascinating and often troubling movement in its entirety. Financial Times Magazine - Weekend
Table of Contents:
PROLOGUE; LIST OF MAIN CHARACTERS; PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITIONALISM; 1. Traditionalism; 2. Perennialism; 3. Gnostics, Taoists and Sufis; PART II: TRADITIONALISM IN PRACTICE; 4. Cairo, Mostaganem and Basel; 5. Fascism; 6. Fragmentation; PART III: TRADITIONALISM AT LARGE; 7. The Maryamiyya; 8. America; 9. Terror in Italy; 10. Education; PART IV: TRADITIONALISM AND THE FUTURE; 11. Europe after 1968; 12. Neo-Eurasianism in Russia; 13. The Islamic World; 14. Against the Stream
Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an influential yet surprisingly little-known twentieth century anti-modernist movement. Involving a number of important, yet often secret, religious groups in the West and Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and religious studies in the United States. Emerging from the 'discovery' in the West of non-Western religious writings, at a time in the nineteeth century when progressive intellectuals had lost faith in the ability of Christianity to deliver religious and spiritual truth, it was fuelled by the widespread religious scepticism that followed World War I. It found its voice in Rene Guenon, a French writer who rejected modernity as a dark age, and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy - the fundamental truth uniting all the world's religions. Mark Sedgwick reveals how this pervasive intellectual movement helped shape major events in twentieth century religious life, politics and scholarship - all the while remaining invisible to outsiders.
Review:
Sedgwick's scholarship regarding Traditionalists themselves is exhaustive and admirable ... Sedgwick contributes an introduction and overview of an otherwise little-known, but important, moment in modern intellectual history. Colin Beech, Journal of World History ... a wealth of information on the lives of the Traditionalists ... This book is a valuable companion to their works, a comprehensive and neutrally presented archive of the personalities and authors, along with their political activities and personal lives. Financial Times Magazine - Weekend Against the Modern World is a valuable and comprehensive effort by a non-Traditionalist to chronicle this fascinating and often troubling movement in its entirety. Financial Times Magazine - Weekend
Table of Contents:
PROLOGUE; LIST OF MAIN CHARACTERS; PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADITIONALISM; 1. Traditionalism; 2. Perennialism; 3. Gnostics, Taoists and Sufis; PART II: TRADITIONALISM IN PRACTICE; 4. Cairo, Mostaganem and Basel; 5. Fascism; 6. Fragmentation; PART III: TRADITIONALISM AT LARGE; 7. The Maryamiyya; 8. America; 9. Terror in Italy; 10. Education; PART IV: TRADITIONALISM AND THE FUTURE; 11. Europe after 1968; 12. Neo-Eurasianism in Russia; 13. The Islamic World; 14. Against the Stream
| Autor | Sedgwick, Mark J. |
|---|---|
| Ilmumisaeg | 2004 |
| Kirjastus | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Köide | Kõvakaaneline |
| Bestseller | Ei |
| Lehekülgede arv | 384 |
| Pikkus | 234 |
| Laius | 234 |
| Keel | English |
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