Traditionalism - Sedgwick, Mark
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Traditionalism is a shadowy philosophy that has influenced much of the twentieth century and beyond. It is a worldview that rejects modernity and instead turns to mystical truth, perennialism, and tradition as its guide. Mark Sedgwick, one of the world's leading scholars of Traditionalism, presents a major new intellectual history, pulling back the curtain on the foundations of Traditionalist philosophy and its major proponents. Traditionalism provides an expansive guide to this important school of thought--one that is little-known and even less understood--and shows how pervasive these ideas have become.…mehr

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Traditionalism is a shadowy philosophy that has influenced much of the twentieth century and beyond. It is a worldview that rejects modernity and instead turns to mystical truth, perennialism, and tradition as its guide. Mark Sedgwick, one of the world's leading scholars of Traditionalism, presents a major new intellectual history, pulling back the curtain on the foundations of Traditionalist philosophy and its major proponents. Traditionalism provides an expansive guide to this important school of thought--one that is little-known and even less understood--and shows how pervasive these ideas have become.
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Autorenporträt
Mark Sedgwick trained as a historian at Oxford University, taught for many years at the American University in Cairo, and finally moved to Denmark, where he is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University. He is also Chair of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies. His work focuses primarily on Islam, Sufism, Traditionalism, terrorism, and radicalization, and he is known especially for his book Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century.
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Sedgwick brings an admirable clarity to the task of introducing Traditionalism, joining the dots between disparate thinkers and doing us a useful service, in helping us to spot it when we see it Christopher Harding Telegraph