About this title: 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, Ren Gunon 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 Gunon ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sophia Perennis/TRSP Publication
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780900588242ISBN:0900588241
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Description: Reader copy. Ex library hard back without dust jacket, boards sunned & showing wear to edges, corners bumped, usual library stamps & markings, otherwise good clear text & binding sound, published 1962 by Luzac & Co ltd., will despatch within 24hrs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Sophia Perennis/TRSP Publication
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780900588501ISBN:0900588500
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Description: New. Critique of the modern world from the point of view of traditional metaphysics, with special reference to the Oriental doctrine of cosmic cycles. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780900588242ISBN:0900588241
Description: New. Critique of the modern world from the point of view of traditional metaphysics, with special reference to the Oriental doctrine of cosmic cycles. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Indica Books
Date Published: 01/11/2002
ISBN-13:9788186569115ISBN:8186569111
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Indica Books
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9788186569115ISBN:8186569111
Description: NEW. SubTitle/Content: [First published in 1927, a criticism of the world's shallowness & spiritual destitution compared to traditional societies. ] This copy: 1999 ed, 142pp. read more
"I highly recommend this book by Rene Guenon and his analysis of our days. Although relatively old, at least from our modern perspective (it was written in the 1920s), it still has much to say."
"We are living in a time of great change. A cycle is closing in which only a few will survive in the spiritual sense. Your body and your soul are entirely different modes of being in the Kali Yuga. A slave can become a spiritual messiah while the rich have no wealth and are little better than manifestations of greed."
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