Description
Edited by Jafe Arnold, Evgeny Nechkasov, Luca Siniscalco, and Lucas Griffin
382 pages / Released February 2025 / Available in paperback and ebook.
See also: Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions – Volume I
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An eventful century has passed since the writings, activities, and networks of René Guénon (1886-1951), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Julius Evola (1898-1974), and Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) initiated what has come to be known as Traditionalism. Within recent decades, unprecedented attention has been drawn to Traditionalism and Traditionalists, both historical and contemporary, in nearly all possibly categorizable spheres: philosophy, religion, esotericism, politics, literature, art, academia, etc. The legacy of the intellectual current that began with Guénon in interwar France has been continually (re)discovered in diverse domains and forms around the world, and a growing literature has yielded various interpretations of the Traditionalist constellation of ideas, figures, works, influences, intersections, and polemics. In the 21st century, Traditionalists as well as scholars of Traditionalism find themselves at a crossroads of reflection on original, essential questions: What, who, and where is Traditionalism? What does Traditionalism mean? Is Traditionalism a phenomenon of the past, an understanding or misnomer of the present, or part of the future? What is the relationship between Traditionalism and the central notion from which it derives its name: Tradition? Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions is a hermeneutic agora for perspectives and studies on and in Traditionalism and Traditions.
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Table of Contents
From the Editors: Speaking of Traditionalism
Askr Svarte – Tradition as Language
Alexander Dugin – The Language of Tradition and the Paradigms of the Modern Sciences: Rectifying Names and Measuring Distances
Maxim Medovarov – The Ontology of Language in the Light of Integral Traditionalism
Andrea Scarabelli – Telling the Origin: Language, Myth, and the Sacred
Tamás Bencze – A Few Remarks on the Spiritual Importance of Languages
Sebastiano Fusco – The Four Levels of Meaning: Polysemic Hermeneutics of Traditional Texts
Nuccio D’Anna – Cosmogony and Anthropogony: Symbols, Language, and Sacred Music in the Vedic Tradition
Giovanni Sessa – Giorgio Colli, Julius Evola, and Hellenic Mysteriosophy: Can Language and Writing be Truth-Makers?
Adolfo Morganti – Truth and Language: Attilio Mordini’s Sapiential Hermeneutics of Language
Veleslav Cherkasov – Neo-Archaic Terms in the Theology of Contemporary Slavic Native Faith
Maxim Makovchik – The Traditional Understanding of the Non-Traditional
Alisa Zagryadskaya – Mouseion, Kunstkammer, and the Classical Museum as Models of Reality: The Transformation of Museum Practices and Our Image of the World from Premodernity to Modernity
Dmitry Moiseev – The Existential Dimension of Traditionalism in the Works of Julius Evola: Towards the Fundamental Principles of the Being of the Differentiated Man
László Virág – András László’s Fundamental Contribution to Metaphysical Tradition
Róbert Horváth – The Idea of Tradition, Its Precedents, and Signs of Decline
About the Authors
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