The reign of quantity & the signs of the times / René Guénon ; translated by Lord Northbourne

• Quality & quantity -- Materia signata quantitate -- Measure & manifestation -- Spatial quantity & qualified space -- The qualitative determinations of time -- The principle of individuation -- Uniformity against unity -- Ancient crafts & modern industry -- The twofold significance of anonymity -- The illusion of statistics -- Unity & 'simplicity' -- The hatred of secrecy -- The postulates of rationalism -- Mechanism & materialism -- The illusion of 'ordinary life' -- The degeneration of coinage -- The solidification of the world -- Scientific mythology & popularization -- The limits of history & geography -- From sphere to cube -- Cain & Abel -- The significance of metallurgy -- Time changed into space -- Toward dissolution -- The fissures in the great wall -- Shamanism & sorcery -- Psychic residues -- The successive stages in anti-traditional action -- Deviation & subversion -- The inversion of symbols -- Tradition & traditionalism -- Neo-spiritualism -- Contemporary intuitionism -- The misdeeds of psychoanalysis -- The confusion of the psychic & the spiritual -- Pseudo-initiation -- The deceptiveness of 'prophecies' -- From anti-tradition to counter-tradition -- The great parody: or spirituality inverted -- The end of a world. 

Ämnesord

Materialism  -- Miscellanea (LCSH)

Civilization, Modern  -- Philosophy -- Miscellanea (LCSH)

Klassifikation

BD701 (LCC)

291.2 (DDC)