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Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century

Author	Mark Sedgwick
Language	English
Subject	Traditionalism
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	2004
Media type	Print (hardcover)
ISBN	9780195152975

Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century (2004) is a book by British historian Mark Sedgwick.

Content

Sedgwick describes the book as being “a biography of René Guénon and a history of the Traditionalist movement that he founded”

Reception

A reviewer for Journal of World History wrote: "Overall, Sedgwick contributes an introduction and overview of an otherwise little-known, but important, moment in modern intellectual history".

Historian Peter Staudenmaier called the book "an informative but insufficiently critical survey of Guénon’s and Evola’s thought".

President of the Julius Evola foundation Gianfranco de Turris called the book "a rather superficial, somewhat rambuncious work to the study of international traditionalism, generally not based on the reading of the original texts and therfore full of equivocal approximations and errors".

Translations

• Contra o Mundo moderno - O Tradicionalismo e a historia intelectual secreta do seculo xx (in Brazilian Portugese). Editora Âyiné. 2019.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
• Gegen die moderne Welt: Die geheime Geistesgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts (in German). Matthes & Seitz Berlin. 2019.

See also

• Revolt Against the Modern World
• Occult Imperium

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Beech, Colin (2006). "Review of: Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century". Journal of World History. 17 (2): 237−239.
• De Turris, Gianfranco (2020). Julius Evola: The Philosopher and Magician in War, 1943-1945. Translated by Eric Dennis Antonius Galati. Inner Traditions. ISBN 9781620558065.
• Peter, Staudenmaier (2010). Between Occultism and Fascism: Anthroposophy and the Politics of Race and Nation in Germany and Italy, 1900-1945 (PDF) (Ph.D. dissertation). Cornell University.
• Ryley, Peter (Winter 2006). "Review of: Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century". Democratiya (7): 138−143.
• Sedgwick, Mark (2004). Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford University Press.
• Sobieroj, Florian (2011). "Review of: Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century". Die Welt des Islams. 51 (2): 269–272. doi:10.1163/157006011X574526.