René Guénon
French metaphysician and writer (1886–1951), a leading figure of the Traditionalist (Perennialist) school. He critiqued modernity and wrote on symbolism, esotericism, and comparative religion (notably La crise du monde moderne and Le règne de la quantité). He converted to Islam and spent his later years in Cairo.
Books
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1. The Reign Of Quantity & The Signs Of The Times
The Signs of the Times
A dense metaphysical critique of modernity arguing that contemporary civilization is dominated by a quantitative, materialistic mentality that has inverted traditional qualitative and spiritual principles; this shift produces spiritual decay, social fragmentation, and the appearance of 'signs' indicating the end of a traditional cycle, while the only remedy lies in the restoration of transcendent, initiated knowledge and the recovery of symbolic and hierarchical perspectives lost to secularism and technological progress.
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