Description

Edited by Jafe Arnold, Evgeny Nechkasov, and Luca Siniscalco
341 pages / Released September 2026 / Available in paperback and ebook.
See also:
Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions – Volume I
Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions – Volume II
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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: Traditionalism and the Other(s)
The Dissimilation of Traditionalism
Evgeny Nechkasov
Traditionalism Today: What It Is and What It Is Not
Maxim Makovchik
Traditionalism and its Mission
Alexander Dugin
Remarks on Heterology
Tamás Bencze
Traditionalism and Higher Education
Arthur Versluis
The Ontological and Temporal Structures of Manifestationism and Creationism
Anastasia Korosteleva
The Influence of Martin Heidegger’s Thinking on Evgeny Nechkasov’s Pagan Traditionalism
Ivan Malikov
Technology in the Optic of Pagan Mythopoetics and Symbolism
Ilya Alexandrov
Mircea Eliade: Sacralizing the Profane
Andrea Scarabelli
Master, Disciple, Tradition: Continuity and Discontinuity
Róbert Horváth
The Resonances of Transcendent Experience: William James’ Pragmatism and the Metaphysics of Traditionalism
Dmitry Moiseev
The Participation of Beings in Eternity and Not in Nothingness: The Foundation of Nietzsche’s Philosophy
Sergei Zhigalkin
Evola, Magical Idealism, and Western Metaphysics
Collin Cleary
The Mask and the Absolute Person: In the Hidden Heart of the Tiger
Luca Siniscalco
About the Authors
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