Ebook {Epub PDF} The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon

Acces PDF The Crisis Of Modern World Rene Guenon The Crisis Of Modern World Rene Guenon 'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs. Guenon, Rene [La crise du monde moderne. English] The crisis of the modern world I Rene Guenon ; translated by Arthur Osborne, Marco Fallis, Richard C. Nicholson p. em.-(Collected works of Rene Guenon) Includes index. ISBN o 24 1 (pbk: alk. paper) ISBN o 50 o (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Culture. 2. Civilization, Modern. 3. Evolution. I.  · René Guénon had a far-reaching vision. Guénon’s life covered a critical turning point in history, encompassing great changes. With the book, Crisis of the Modern World, Guénon was seeing what he called the Kali Yuga, the ending of a Great Aeon or Mahayuga, and the sinking into dissolution of all real bltadwin.ruénon died in and could not have foreseen exactly how things would turn.

René Guénon. Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, pages. Paperback. ISBN: Price: $ US. 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 , René Guénon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to. Quotes by René Guénon. "The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences.". "The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more. Critique of the modern world from the point of view of traditional metaphysics, with special reference to the Oriental doctrine of cosmic bltadwin.ru The Crisis of the Modern World, published for the first time in , Guenon writes a relentless and radical criticism of the modern world, revealing its shallowness and its spiritual destitution when confronted with the traditional civilizations.

René Guénon has books on Goodreads with ratings. René Guénon’s most popular book is The Crisis of the Modern World. In this very important book, which has become a classic, Rene Guenon analyzes the crisis of our times from the metaphysical point of view. That is, it is diagnosed not as a degradation of morals, which is a perversion of the will, but as the degradation of knowl­ edge, that is, a perversion of the intellect. Guenon’s ‘The Crisis in the Modern World’ was written in (three years before my own birth) and describes our current times with prescient and increasing accuracy. In the chapter on ‘Knowledge and Action’ Guenon explains in his razor-like French precision that the modern world, its sciences and philosophies, its very foundations have become completely disconnected from any metaphysical truth.