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14066438 No.14066438 [Reply] [Original]

name a 20th century thinker who is more relevant today than René Guénon

>pro-tip: you can't

>> No.14066445

>>14066438

Me

>> No.14066458

Rene doomed himself because of converting to Islam, now most Europeans see him and his works as too foreign and are intimidated.

>> No.14066489

He is not even a philosopher. He is a pseudointellctual rhetoritician with an awful reading in comparative religion.

>> No.14066533

>>14066438
>guenon most relevant
>has no relevance outside of /lit/ shills

>> No.14066600

He's like the dudes in The Foucault Pendulum.

>> No.14066615

He will only be remembered for converting, inshallah

>> No.14066616

>>14066600
This, also this
>>14066489

Reign of quantity is worth reading for non-faggots interested in people like: lasch, michea, illich

>> No.14066649

Chesterton

>> No.14066678

>>14066445
that which is asserted without justification just be dismissed without justification
>>14066458
for the average pleb maybe, but he remains an enduring topic of fascination among intellectuals
>>14066489
>He is not even a philosopher.
nobody said that he was you absolute brainlet, philosophy is the degenerated offspring of metaphysics, Rene was a metaphysician, he would have considered it an insult to be called a philosopher
>He is a pseudointellctual
Rene was incomparably smarter than you or any of the clowns that you adore, I know that it hurts you to know that. You will never have the masterful grasp of languages, mathematics and metaphysics that he did.
>rhetoritician
someone is not a rhetoritician if they offer logical explanations for all of their ideas and claims like Guenon did you mongaloid, do you even know what that word means?
>with an awful reading in comparative religion.
And what exactly is awful about it? He backs up all his claims with citations proving what he says from the primary sources of all the thinkers and religious texts that he talks about, which he read in their original language viz Sanskrit, Chinese, Arabic etc no less
>>14066533
He is immensely relevent in the MENA countries, as well as in the western 3rd position, anti-neoliberal, eurasianist etc groups that will increasingly become dominant and influence the future of the west as neoliberalism collapses
>>14066615
"He who knows the unity of traditional forms is necessarily unconvertable to anything" - A letter that Guenon wrote that is cited in Sedgewick's book (paraphrased)