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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

The Crisis of the Modern World

by René Guénon

A short polemical diagnosis of modern Western civilisation as a deviation from traditional, spiritual principles. Guénon criticises individualism, materialism and the cult of action and calls for an intellectual elite to restore contact with tradition.

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