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Original Title:	La Crise du monde moderne
ISBN:	0900588241 (ISBN13: 9780900588242)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Critique du monde moderne #2

The Crisis of the Modern World (Critique du monde moderne #2) Paperback | Pages: 120 pages

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Title	:	The Crisis of the Modern World (Critique du monde moderne #2)
Author	:	René Guénon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 120 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2001 by Sophia Perennis et Universalis (first published 1927)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Nonfiction. Religion. Politics. Metaphysics. Spirituality

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The very title of the present volume calls for some initial explanation, if what it means is to be clearly understood and all misrepresentation prevented. Many no longer doubt the possibility of a world crisis, taking the latter word in its most usual acceptation, and this in itself marks a very noticeable change of outlook: by sheer force of circumstance certain illusions are beginning to vanish, and we cannot but rejoice that this is so, for it is at any rate a favorable symptom and a sign that a readjustment of the contemporary mentality is still possible— a glimmer of light as it were— in the midst of the present chaos.
For example, the belief in a never-ending ‘progress’, which until recently was held as a sort of inviolable and indisputable dogma, is no longer so widespread; there are those who perceive, though in a vague and confused manner, that the civilization of the West may not always go on developing in the same direction, but may some day reach a point where it will stop, or even be plunged in its entirety into some cataclysm. Such persons may not see clearly where the danger lies— the fantastic or puerile fears they sometimes express being proof enough that their minds still harbor many errors— but it is already something that they realize there is a danger, even if it is felt rather than understood; and it is also something that they can conceive that this civilization, with which the moderns are so infatuated, holds no privileged position in the history of the world, and may easily encounter the same fate as has befallen many others that have already disappeared at more or less remote periods, some of them having left traces so slight as to be hardly noticeable, let alone recognizable.

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Brilliant analysis of the spiritual and metaphysical crisis of western civilization and the value shift that western culture found itself in following the so called enlightenment era.

"Humanism was the first form of what has subsequently become contemporary secularism; and, owing to its desire to reduce everything to the measure of man as an end in himself, modern civilization has sunk stage by stage until it has reached the level of the lowest elements in man and aims at little more than satisfying the needs inherent in the material side of his nature, an aim that is in any case quite illusory since it constantly creates more artificial needs than it can satisfy." P17 Ch. 1

Regardless of the fact that this could be a cult book, by far one of the most interesting insights into our human current human condition and why and how we got here.

Although Renen wrote that book in the 1920s , but he actually nailed it. As if he is here today. The book is an answer to the question that every body is asking, What is wrong with this world ?! Indeed, Renen the great philosopher and the metaphysical scintest illustrate his answer with a strong logic. It is not easy to follow him, and he is a bit arrogant but indeed based on a strong argument. THe book is very sencere and neutral in illustrating its point. The concept of the four cycles is very



I picked up this worrying little diatribe because I had heard Steve Bannon was taught this in his Catholic college and he remains a fan. The author, Rene Guenon, hates the present world and he wants it to change. He yearns for the Middle Ages, when Kings rules the masses, the Catholic Church ruled the Kings, and life had clear reason and meaning (for him). He wants to send us all back there (and he may yet have his wish). The reason he hates the present world (circa 1927, and final edition in

a dense, dry, demanding book of profound interest and great illumination. if you cotton to him (many will not), there's quite a lot more where this one came from. a life-changer.