The Crisis of The Modern World, Rene Guenon, 2004.
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The Crisis of the Modern World
(Collected Works of Rene Guenon) Paperback – June 24, 2004
by Rene Guenon (Author)
René Guénon
(1886–1951) was one of the great luminaries of the twentieth century, whose
critique of the modern world has stood fast against the shifting sands of
intellectual fashion. His extensive writings, now finally available in English,
are a providential treasure-trove for the modern seeker: while pointing
ceaselessly to the perennial wisdom found in past cultures ranging from the
Shamanistic to the Indian and Chinese, the Hellenic and Judaic, the Christian
and Islamic, and including also Alchemy, Hermeticism, and other esoteric
currents, they direct the reader also to the deepest level of religious praxis,
emphasizing the need for affiliation with a revealed tradition even while
acknowledging the final identity of all spiritual paths as they approach the
summit of spiritual realization.
René Guénon, of whom
Jacob Needleman wrote in The Sword of Gnosis that ‘no other modern writer has
so effectively communicated the absoluteness of truth,’ is gradually being
recognized by deeper thinkers as one of the few who have truly penetrated the
seductive veil of the modern age.
As an expositor of
pure metaphysics and its application to the science of symbols, Guénon is
without peer; and his extraordinarily prescient critique of the modern world is
attracting more and more attention among cultural commentators. Little known in
the English-speaking world till the recent appearance of his Collected Works in
translation, Guénon has nevertheless long been recognized as a veritable
criterion of truth by a vanguard of remarkable writers who evince that rare
combination: intellectuality and spirituality.
After a lonely
childhood, often interrupted by ill health, Guénon navigated the seductive
half-truths of occultism toward a deeper, unified vision offering a way out
from the confusion and fragmentation of our time. Regarded by leading scholars
as the first truly authentic interpreter of many Eastern doctrines in the West,
Guénon never tired, in face of the seemingly inexorable process of dissolution in
the twentieth century, of pointing to the transcendent unity of all religious
faiths and the abiding Truth that contains them all.
Ornag yang menafikan Tuhan (ateisme) meeka akan terjebak
kepada kehampaan, yak brmakna dan dipenuhi ambisi mengusasi. Xvi IG Buku 3 Myibak Kebenaran, Pitan Daslani,
Maret 2021.
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, René Guénon 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 Guénon 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.
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