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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465172103321

Autore

Sedgwick Mark J

Titolo

Against the modern world [[electronic resource] ] : traditionalism and the secret intellectual history of the twentieth century / / Mark Sedgwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-19-539601-4

0-19-803490-3

1-280-55886-5

0-19-974493-9

9786610558865

1-4237-2015-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Disciplina

194

Soggetti

Tradition (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-359) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Main Characters; Prologue; PART I: The Development of Traditionalism; 1. Traditionalism; 2. Perennialism; 3. Gnostics, Taoists, and Sufis; PART II: Traditionalism in Practice; 4. Cairo, Mostaganem, and Basel; 5. Fascism; 6. Fragmentation; PART III: Traditionalism at Large; 7. The Maryamiyya; 8. America; 9. Terror in Italy; 10. Education; PART IV: Traditionalism and the Future; 11. Europe after 1968; 12. Neo-Eurasianism in Russia; 13. The Islamic World; 14. Against the Stream; Notes; Glossary; B; C; D; E; F; H; I; J; K; M; O; P; S; U; W; Z; Interviewees; Bibliography; Index

AB; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

""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 nineteenth century when progressive intellectuals had lost faith in the ability of Christianity to deliver religious and spiritual truth, it was fueled