/lit/ - Literature

>>16113861
>Guénon was a brainle-
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
>Guénon was a stupid posing larpe-
He was initiated into both a Vietnamese Taoist Triad as well as the al-'Arabiyya Shadhiliyya Sufi order, furthermore in all his writings he stressed the need for personal and genuine participation in whatever Traditions one aspired to follow. His acquaintances both Egyptian and western observed that he scrupulously followed Islamic observances during his life in Egypt
>Guénon was a literal nobody, he was not influenti-
Among the many western philosophers, artists and authors who were influenced by him or who heaped praise on him include 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. Furthermore as Nasr notes in his article 'The Influence of Rene Guenon in the Islamic World', Guénon is well-known and influential among the intelligentsia including traditional Islamic scholars in certain Islamic countries such in Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia.
>Guénon just made a bunch of stupid and unjustified comparisons between religio-
To the contrary over the course of some twenty odd books he painstakingly and patiently elucidated the fundamental agreement between the metaphysics of Advaita Vedanta, Taoism, Sufism, Hermeticism and Christian esoterism, work that Coomaraswamy built on and further confirmed

>>15192822
mega-cringe, tradition is the vessel which carries wisdom to us from across the waters of time, gay soγ-boy which wants to 'rebel against' tradition because professor Shlomostein told him to detected
>>15192871
cringe

Brothers, what are we reading today?

>>15024861
It's not spam but those are legitimate threads which are literature related. No amount of whining can change that.


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>1 autismal hylic with mental illness vs based Guenon (pbuh) gang

Can the spirit, intellect, bravery, and rationality of the Guenon (pbuh) gang be enough to defeat the evil forces of one anon with severe autism??? Find out next time in another contemplation packed episode of /lit/.

Does he have original ideas?
Why no serious philosopher has attempted a refutation or a continuation of his work?

>>14986336
... for you