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Against the Modern World

Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

by Mark Sedgwick (assistant Professor, History Department, Assistant Professor, History Department, American University In Cairo, Egypt)

  • Hardback
  • 384 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an influential yet surprisingly little-known twentieth century anti-modernist movement. Involving a number of important, yet often secret, religious groups in the West and Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and religious studies in the United States. Emerging from the 'discovery' in the West of non-Western religious writings, at a time in the nineteeth century when progressive intellectuals had lost faith in the ability of Christianity to deliver religious and spiritual truth, it was fuelled by the widespread religious scepticism that followed World War I. It found its voice in Rene Guenon, a French writer who rejected modernity as a dark age, and sought to reconstruct the Perennial Philosophy - the fundamental truth uniting all the world's religions. Mark Sedgwick reveals how this pervasive intellectual movement helped shape major events in twentieth century religious life, politics and scholarship - all the while remaining invisible to outsiders.
Against the Modern World and Against the Modern World Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century
Against the Modern World Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth CenturyAgainst the Modern World

  • Author

    Mark Sedgwick (assistant Professor, History Department, Assistant Professor, History Department, American University In Cairo, Egypt)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    681g

  • Page Count

    384

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195152975

  • ISBN-10

    0195152972

  • Eden Code

    1146831

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