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The Anarchist Revelation - Being What We're Meant to be (Paperback)
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The Anarchist Revelation - Being What We're Meant to be (Paperback)
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Loot Price R326
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Paul Cudenec draws on an impressively wide range of authors to
depict a corrupted civilization on the brink of self-destruction
and to call for a powerful new philosophy of resistance and renewal
offering a future for humanity in which we are all able to "be what
we're meant to be." He combines the anarchism of the likes of
Gustav Landauer, Michael Bakunin and Herbert Read with the
philosophy of Rene Guenon, Herbert Marcuse and Jean Baudrillard;
the existentialism of Karl Jaspers and Colin Wilson; the vision of
Carl Jung, Oswald Spengler and Idries Shah, and the environmental
insight of Derrick Jensen and Paul Shepard in a work of ideological
alchemy fuelled by the ancient universal esoteric beliefs found in
Sufism, Taoism and hermeticism. With a fusion of scholarly research
and inspiring polemic, Cudenec succeeds in forging a coherent and
profound 21st century world-view with an appeal that will reach out
far beyond those who currently term themselves anarchists. The book
sets out by exploring the sense of meaninglessness in modern
society, exemplified by our alienating dependency on technology and
mental manipulation by commercial interests. It follows Guenon,
Marcuse and Baudrillard in diagnosing a regression of intellect and
the reign of quality over quantity - a condition that Cudenec
describes as the disease of...
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