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Where should I start with traditionalist philosophy? Who should I read, and which books are best for a beginner?

>> No.14512251

>>14512233
Guenon

>> No.14512257

>>14512251
Which work of his should I start with, though?

>> No.14512406

>>14512257
If you want to start Guenon, you should start with his book on the doctrines of Hinduism. There's a chart on the wiki. I wouldn't get really into big-T Traditionalism though. It's its own thing separate from any form of small-t traditionalism and essentially relies on cargo-culting the rituals and superficial aspects of religion to attain religious experience.

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14512489

>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Martin Heidegger
All were precursors to Traditionalism. Schopenhauer especially was a perennialist who was hugely influenced by the Upanishads.

The core thinkers of the Traditionalist school:
>Rene Guenon
>Julius Evola
>Oswald Spengler
>Aleksandr Dugin (the most well known contemporary Traditionalist politician/philosopher)

>> No.14512506

>>14512489
>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Martin Heidegger
>All were precursors to Traditionalism

seeing what you want to see

>> No.14512519

>>14512506
kinda like how Deleuzians think Nietzsche and Heidegger were Marxists amirite?

Zizek was right about you niggers

>> No.14512611

>>14512489
I know Nietzsche was critical of religious traditionalism, but he was still super important to the school because his ideas were carried over to Julius Evola

Schoppy and Heidegger both were very Traditionalist, albeit not in the exact same way that Guenon was, their views are still very compatible with the traditionalist school

>> No.14513471

>>14512233
Can someone link me to the Rene Guenon Discord? I lost the link

>> No.14513509

>>14512489
>Arthur Schopenhauer
>Friedrich Nietzsche
>Martin Heidegger
Although they're precursors that had similar strain of thought they're wholly unimportant when considering the traditionalists themselves, even evola said asmuch about nietzsche, Guenon mostly draws from Classical metaphysics.

>> No.14513568

>>14513509
I know, but they were pretty beneficial for me, especially Schopenhauer and Heidegger. I respect Nietzsches criticisms of Christianity but his Philosophy ultimately rests on the idea of Eternal Recurrance being true