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In East and West Gu non diagnoses the fundamental 'abnormality' of Western civilization vis- -vis the traditional civilizations of the East, suggests avenues by which the West might be 're-oriented' toward the fundamental metaphysical principles it has largely abandoned, and outlines the possible role of a restoration of true intellectuality in this task. Of course, East and West are no longer what they were in Guenon's time. The aggressive rationalism and materialism of post-Christian Western culture has become a worldwide phenomenon, and no longer corrodes the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of the West only: it has infiltrated distorted forms of Eastern spirituality and metaphysics, incited fundamentalist reactions the world over, and, thanks to the pervasive internet, wields previously unheard of influence. And so today we have an East largely inflamed with a desire to surpass the West in materialism, and a West sodden with moral and spiritual degeneracy. Nonetheless, fruitful exchanges between traditional Christianity and Eastern religions have also taken place on an unprecedented scale, though marred by an ongoing temptation to ill-informed syncretism. In such a milieu, Gu non's East and West, read with an eye to events of recent decades, delivers a stunning intellectual punch. But the East is always the East: the place where the sun rises, the point of recollection and return to the Source. And the West is always the West: the place of the full manifestation of possibilities (including the most degenerate), of the tendency to dissipation and dissolution; the point where the sun sets. In postmodern, global culture, we are all more or less forced to be 'Westerners' outwardly; our only recourse under these circumstances may be to become 'Easterners' within.… (meer)
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Este libro da comienzo a la trilogía crítica del mundo moderno de René Guénon. Más vigente que nunca, a pesar de haberlo escrito hace aproximadamente cien años, nos advierte en este título sobre los peligros de los «dogmas» actuales: el culto al «progreso» continuo, a la ciencia moderna, al apego a lo material. Propone que la solución más factible a la decadencia en la que estamos sumergidos es un acercamiento a Oriente. Este Oriente, no obstante, se trata más de una dimensión metafísica que geográfica, máxime en los tiempos que corren. Lo importante es rescatar (o re-descubrir) los principios comunes a todas las sociedad tradicionales a lo largo de la historia; principios que, según explica Guénon, aún están presentes en aquellas latitudes. Esta búsqueda no debería tener como fin el reemplazo o el sincretismo, sino ser el andamiaje para recuperar nuestra propia Tradición y elevarla por sobre todo lo que hay de contingente en nuestra cultura. ( )
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The civilization of the modern West appears in history as a veritable anomaly: among all those which are known to us more or less completely, this civilization is the only one which has developed along purely material lines, and this monstrous development, whose beginning coincides with the so-called Renaissance, as been acocmpanied, as indeed it was fated to be, by a corresponding intellectual regress; we say corresponding and not equivalent, because here are two orders of things between which there canbe no common measure.
Foreword: Rudyard Kipling once wrote these words: East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet.
Preface: As the author says in the post-script specially written for this translation, the state of the world is now far worse even than it was when the book was first published; and perhaps the most alarming feature of the recent changes is that the East now shows signs of succumbing, at least outwardly, to the anit-traditional influences which had already overwhelmed the West.
Preliminary Remark: The works of Rene Guenon (1886-1951), all but unknown to the English-reading public, are nevertheless regarded by many significant thinkers as among this century's most powerful and effective remedies for the virulent relativism and anti-traditional spirit of modernism.
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Also, in addition to this, let us say here and now that we are more than ever inclined to think of the traditional outlook,, in so far as it is really alive, as remaining intact only in its eastern forms; however, if the West has still in herself the means of going back to and fully restoring her own tradition, it is for her to prove it; we can only say that so far we have seen not the slightest sign which would justify us in supposing that she is really capable of carrying out such a task all by herself, even if she should become overwhelmed by the sense of its necessity.
In East and West Gu non diagnoses the fundamental 'abnormality' of Western civilization vis- -vis the traditional civilizations of the East, suggests avenues by which the West might be 're-oriented' toward the fundamental metaphysical principles it has largely abandoned, and outlines the possible role of a restoration of true intellectuality in this task. Of course, East and West are no longer what they were in Guenon's time. The aggressive rationalism and materialism of post-Christian Western culture has become a worldwide phenomenon, and no longer corrodes the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of the West only: it has infiltrated distorted forms of Eastern spirituality and metaphysics, incited fundamentalist reactions the world over, and, thanks to the pervasive internet, wields previously unheard of influence. And so today we have an East largely inflamed with a desire to surpass the West in materialism, and a West sodden with moral and spiritual degeneracy. Nonetheless, fruitful exchanges between traditional Christianity and Eastern religions have also taken place on an unprecedented scale, though marred by an ongoing temptation to ill-informed syncretism. In such a milieu, Gu non's East and West, read with an eye to events of recent decades, delivers a stunning intellectual punch. But the East is always the East: the place where the sun rises, the point of recollection and return to the Source. And the West is always the West: the place of the full manifestation of possibilities (including the most degenerate), of the tendency to dissipation and dissolution; the point where the sun sets. In postmodern, global culture, we are all more or less forced to be 'Westerners' outwardly; our only recourse under these circumstances may be to become 'Easterners' within.
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Más vigente que nunca, a pesar de haberlo escrito hace aproximadamente cien años, nos advierte en este título sobre los peligros de los «dogmas» actuales: el culto al «progreso» continuo, a la ciencia moderna, al apego a lo material.
Propone que la solución más factible a la decadencia en la que estamos sumergidos es un acercamiento a Oriente. Este Oriente, no obstante, se trata más de una dimensión metafísica que geográfica, máxime en los tiempos que corren.
Lo importante es rescatar (o re-descubrir) los principios comunes a todas las sociedad tradicionales a lo largo de la historia; principios que, según explica Guénon, aún están presentes en aquellas latitudes. Esta búsqueda no debería tener como fin el reemplazo o el sincretismo, sino ser el andamiaje para recuperar nuestra propia Tradición y elevarla por sobre todo lo que hay de contingente en nuestra cultura. (