Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

by Mark Sedgwick

Hardcover, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

194

Collection

Publication

Oxford University Press, USA (2004), Edition: First Edition, Hardcover, 384 pages

Description

""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

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PROTIV MODERNOG SVETA, profesora Marka Sedžvika, je moderno, hladno i naučno napisana knjiga (Oxford University Press) o anti-modernizmu i njegovim predstavnicima u dvadesetom veku. Čitalac će prevaliti dug i dalek put od pariskih gnostičkih krugova s kraja devetnaestog veka, preko Renea
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Original publication date

2004

Physical description

384 p.; 6.38 x 1.18 inches

ISBN

0195152972 / 9780195152975

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