Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth CenturyOxford University Press, 03/06/2004 - 384 páginas 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. In the nineteenth century, at a time when progressive intellectuals had lost faith in Christianity's ability to deliver religious and spiritual truth, the West discovered non-Western religious writings. From these beginnings grew Traditionalism, emerging from the occultist milieu of late nineteenth-century France, and fed by the widespread loss of faith in progress that followed the First World War. Working first in Paris and then in Cairo, the French writer René Guénon rejected modernity as a dark age, and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy-- the central religious truths behind all the major world religions --largely on the basis of his reading of Hindu religious texts. A number of disenchanted intellectuals responded to Guénon's call with attempts to put theory into practice. Some attempted without success to guide Fascism and Nazism along Traditionalist lines; others later participated in political terror in Italy. Traditionalism finally provided the ideological cement for the alliance of anti-democratic forces in post-Soviet Russia, and at the end of the twentieth century began to enter the debate in the Islamic world about the desirable relationship between Islam and modernity |
Índice
Traditionalism in Practice | 71 |
Traditionalism at Large | 146 |
Traditionalism and the Future | 206 |
Notes | 273 |
Glossary | 343 |
Interviewees | 347 |
351 | |
361 | |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Ague´li Alawi Alawiyya Algeria Arabic Aske´nazi Aymard became Burckhardt Cairo Catholic Chacornac Charbonneau-Lassay Chemin du cinabre Christian Coomaraswamy crise du monde cultural dhikr Dugin e-mail Eliade’s Encausse Erinnerungen und Betrachtungen esoteric esotericism established Etudes traditionnelles Eurasia Movement Eurasian Fascist Ferraresi followers France French Frithjof Schuon Gnostic Gue´non Hinduism Ibn al-Arabi ijaza important initiation intellectual interest interview Iran Italian Ivan Aguéli Jamal journal Julius Evola later Limonov lodge Martinist Maryami Maryamiyya Masonic Masonry Merton Meyenburg Milan Minacce alla democrazia Mircea Eliade Muhammad Muslim Mutti Nasr Nasr’s Neo-Eurasianism occultist Ordine Nuovo Orient et Occident original Pallavicini Papus Paris Perennial Philosophy Perennialism political Pouvourville practice published religion religious Rene René Guénon Reyor ritual Romanian Russian scholars Schuonian Se´ligny Sebottendorf Sharia shaykh Soviet spiritual Sqali Sufi Sufi order Sufism Theosophical tradition Traditionalism Traditionalist Traditionalist philosophy translation twentieth century University Vaˆlsan West Western wrote zawiya
Passagens conhecidas
Página 16 - Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
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Beshara and Ibn 'Arabi: A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the Modern World Suha Taji-Farouki Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |
Beshara and Ibn 'Arabi: A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the Modern World Suha Taji-Farouki Pré-visualização indisponível - 2007 |