Mark Sedgwick

Against the Modern World

Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

- Traces Traditionalism from Europe through America, . the Islamic World, and the former Soviet Union - Sheds light on some of the most important areas of 20th-century history and politics

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 165mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780195152975
• ISBN-10: 0195152972
• Artikelnr.: 22357462

Autorenporträt

Mark Sedgwick is head of the Islamic Cultures and Societies Research Unit at Aarhus University in Denmark and is the author of Sufism: The Essentials (2000).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue; List of Main Characters
Part I: The Development of Traditionalism
1: Traditionalism
2: Perennialism
3: Gnostics, Taoists and Sufis
Part II: Traditionalism in Practice
4: Cairo, Mostaganem and Basel
5: Fascism
6: Fragmentation
Part III: Traditionalism at Large
7: The Maryamiyya
8: America
9: Terror in Italy
10: Education
Part IV: Traditionalism and the Future
11: Europe after 1968
12: Neo-Eurasianism in Russia
13: The Islamic World
14: Against the Stream