“Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions” — edited by Jafe Arnold, Evgeny Nechkasov, Lucas Griffin, and Luca Siniscalco. By PRAV Publishing.
An eventful century has passed since the writings, activities, and networks of René Guénon (1886-1951), Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), Julius Evola (1898-1974), and Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) initiated what has come to be known as Traditionalism. Within recent decades, unprecedented attention has been drawn to Traditionalism and Traditionalists, both historical and contemporary, in nearly all possibly categorizable spheres: philosophy, religion, esotericism, politics, literature, art, academia, etc. The legacy of the intellectual current that began with Guénon in interwar France has been continually (re)discovered in diverse domains and forms around the world, and a growing literature has yielded various interpretations of the Traditionalist constellation of ideas, figures, works, influences, intersections, and polemics. In the 21st century, Traditionalists as well as scholars of Traditionalism find themselves at a crossroads of reflection on original, essential questions: What, who, and where is Traditionalism? What does Traditionalism mean? Is Traditionalism a phenomenon of the past, an understanding or misnomer of the present, or part of the future? What is the relationship between Traditionalism and the central notion from which it derives its name: Tradition? Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions is a hermeneutic agora for perspectives and studies on and in Traditionalism and Traditions.
From the Editors: Recollecting Traditionalism
Alexander Dugin – René Guénon: Traditionalism as a Language
Róbert Horváth – Regarding the Term “Traditional Authors”
Maxim Makovchik – Traditionalism as Understood by René Guénon and its Contemporary Understanding
Jonatán Gődény – The Realisation of the Spirit of Tradition and the Culture of the Unrealised Spirit
Giovanni Sessa – Guénon’s Crisis, “Crisis Literature,” and Negative Thought
Troy Southgate – Anti-Tradition in the Age of Iron
Gianfranco de Turris – The Antitheses of Modernity
Giovanni Damiano – The Temporality of the Tiger: Some Notes on the Evolian ‘Riding the Tiger’
Uligang Xanth Ansbrandt – Traditionalism as the Tree and the Ark of the Radical Selves for the Restoration of the Erst Philosophy
Jean-Pierre Laurant – Heart and Center in René Guénon: On the Usage of Symbols
Tamás Bencze – Metaphysical Solipsism — A Basic Principle of Tradition
Eduardo Zarelli – A Traditionalist Inquiry into Nature
Collin Cleary – Heidegger Against the Traditionalists
Askr Svarte – Traditionalism and (Mis-)Understanding Heidegger
Charlie Smith – Yuri Mamleev’s Fate of Being as a Response to Guénon’s Metaphysics
Veleslav Cherkasov – Tradition and Traditionalism in Contemporary Slavic Native Faith: My Subjective View
Dmitry Moiseev – The Political Dimension of Traditionalism in René Guénon and Julius Evola: Defining the Ideal Principles of Social Organization
Roberto Cecchetti – Evola and Jung: For a Reactualisation of Tradition
About the Authors
From the Editors: Speaking of Traditionalism
Askr Svarte – Tradition as Language
Alexander Dugin – The Language of Tradition and the Paradigms of the Modern Sciences: Rectifying Names and Measuring Distances
Maxim Medovarov – The Ontology of Language in the Light of Integral Traditionalism
Andrea Scarabelli – Telling the Origin: Language, Myth, and the Sacred
Tamás Bencze – A Few Remarks on the Spiritual Importance of Languages
Sebastiano Fusco – The Four Levels of Meaning: Polysemic Hermeneutics of Traditional Texts
Nuccio D’Anna – Cosmogony and Anthropogony: Symbols, Language, and Sacred Music in the Vedic Tradition
Giovanni Sessa – Giorgio Colli, Julius Evola, and Hellenic Mysteriosophy: Can Language and Writing be Truth-Makers?
Adolfo Morganti – Truth and Language: Attilio Mordini’s Sapiential Hermeneutics of Language
Veleslav Cherkasov – Neo-Archaic Terms in the Theology of Contemporary Slavic Native Faith
Maxim Makovchik – The Traditional Understanding of the Non-Traditional
Alisa Zagryadskaya – Mouseion, Kunstkammer, and the Classical Museum as Models of Reality: The Transformation of Museum Practices and Our Image of the World from Premodernity to Modernity
Dmitry Moiseev – The Existential Dimension of Traditionalism in the Works of Julius Evola: Towards the Fundamental Principles of the Being of the Differentiated Man
László Virág – András László’s Fundamental Contribution to Metaphysical Tradition
Róbert Horváth – The Idea of Tradition, Its Precedents, and Signs of Decline
About the Authors
