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Against the Modern World - Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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Against the Modern World - Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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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 Rene Guenon 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 Guenon'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"
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