/lit/ - Literature

Okay, cool I guess.

>>14027723
Why are you preemptively coping as an OP from those who attack your favorite pseud author? I'm embarrassed on your behalf.

>>14027723
on /lit/'s day of the rope, the guenon cultists and g/acc coombrains are gonna have to flip a coin for who gets launched into the sun first

>>14027723
based

all that intelligence and yet he still fell for the exotic foreign religion meme lol

So, what makes someone smart?

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Rene Gaynon LOL

I retroactively btfo this post this morning on the toilet.

>>14027781
Who's left to start the day of the rope if you are hanging the whole board?

>>14027865
proof?

>>14027916
He took a snapshot of the OP, print it out, put it in the toilet, and took a massive dump on it.

>>14027931
but that's impossible unless he had a time machine, which I doubt

>>14027723
>Steve bannon
You’re gonna need better b8. Nice image tho

>>14027940
I do

>>14027941
>Bannon explicitly rejects them, and also rejects any association with (Richard) Spencer, whom he calls a self-promoting “freak” and a “goober.” Instead, the common themes of the collapse of Western civilization and the loss of the transcendent in books such as Guénon’s The Crisis of the Modern World (1927) and Evola’s Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) are what drew Bannon’s interest to Traditionalism (although he was also very much taken with its spiritual aspects, citing Guénon’s 1925 book, Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta, as “a life-changing discovery”). Bannon, more synthesist than strict adherent, brought to Guénon’s Traditionalism a strong dose of Catholic social thought, in particular the concept of “subsidiarity”: the principle expressed in Pope Pius XI’s 1931 encyclical, Quadragesimo anno, that political matters should devolve to the lowest, least centralized authority that can responsibly handle them—a concept that, in a U.S. political context, mirrors small-government conservatism. Everywhere Bannon looked in the modern world, he saw signs of collapse and an encroaching globalist order stamping out the last vestiges of the traditional.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/07/the-strange-origins-of-steve-bannons-nationalist-fantasia

https://archive.is/IJnFb

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>>14027915
Kek

>>14027829
Being able to recognise good.

>>14027723
>Among the many western philosophers, artists and authors who were influenced by him or who heaped praise on him include Carl Schmitt, Georges Bataille,
But in the accursed share Bataille shits on him. Does he mention him elsewhere?

>>14027915
this

>>14027986
wow, you wouldn't think it from his anti-Muslim rhetoric

>>14027862
homosexuality is haram and Rene was a strict Musalman

>>14027965
prove it

>>14027723
>He was proficient at Greek, Latin, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Sanskrit, Hebraic, Arabic and Chinese, was trained in mathematics and was extremely well-read in both eastern and western philosophy

So was Aleister Crowley, even though Guénon readers hate him. Crowley also played chess at national level and even won games against future world champions in chess. Most Guénon readers still ignore these facts and just call Crowley degenerate, brainlet.

Crowley was actually so procicient in Eastern thought that he felt comfortable translating Yi King, Tao Teh King and Khing Kang King while travelling in China. Guénon at best, wrote few sentences on Taoist practices, while Crowley penetrated the country and wrote the translations of those books during his travels in the East.

The list goes on and on. I am not even willing to discuss the other "feats" of Guénon which are pale in comparison to the Great Beast 666, of which Guénon was brainlet enough to believe was a secret advisor to Adolf Hitler.

Crowley also cucked Coomarawaswamy's wife and absolutely BTFO the traditionalist school for ever.

>>14028433
That's the only reference to him I know, but he also mentions him in a few letters (in Choix de lettres), mainly to Pierre Prévost, who wrote a review of The Reign of Quantity in the first issue of their journal Critique. Bataille thought it was not critical enough of Guénon. Even if Bataille was not completely opposed to Guénon he remained resistant to him. The reference that Wikipedia gives (where that quote is from) is to Prévost's book on Bataille & Guénon: apparently he was a follower of both, and probably reconciles the two in his book, but Bataille himself was not "influenced" by Abd al-Wahid Yahya.

>>14027723
>[influenced] Carl Schmitt, Georges Bataille, Aleksander Dugin, Antonin Artaud, Olavo de Carvalho, André Breton, Mircea Eliade, Alain Danielou, Julius Evola, André Malraux, Albert Gleizes, René Daumal, Raymond Queneau, Paul Ackerman, Huston Smith, William Chittick, Steve Bannon, Harry Oldmeadow, James Cutsinger and Hossein Nasr
So, crap pseuds, except maybe Artaud and Daumal?

>>14030917
>Georges Bataille
>crap pseud

>>14027723
You're hyping him up a little here, for instance saying he was "trained in mathematics" when he only followed one year of higher mathematics study and had to drop eventually due to his health. His understanding of mathematics was probably no higher than that of a good sophomore student nowadays.

It's also striking that despite his many readings and initiation his essential doctrine didn't bulge from his twentieth year to his death. He had a single idea since very early on, ever since he met his Hindu master.
I'm also laughing at your inclusion of 4chan memes like Dugin and de Carvalho in an otherwise legit list. Even worse with Bannon who is basically the boomer talk-show host of the alt-right.

That said, no contest that Guénon was a legitimate intellectual and understand and practiced seriously a variety of traditions. I don't think anybody who has remotely looked into his life denies it.

>>14030942
You got that image from me! :) I'm glad to contribute to board culture

>>14027986
>and a “goober.”

>>14030356
Crowley lost a psychic battle and Gurdjeff and that guy was a massive clown

>>14030356
>Ananda Coomaraswamy was okay with getting cucked by Crowley.
I guess that's why he's called Ananda COOMaraswamy.

Can we please bring back the autistic faggot who used to sperg put on every Geunon post about Geunonfag, hence ruining any attempt to meme him into relevance. He was the only one holding back this tide of shit

>>14027723
>eastern (...) philosophy
stopped reading there
no such thing