Misplaced Pages

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (September 2024) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the French article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,696 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
1945 book by René Guénon
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
Cover of the first edition
AuthorRené Guénon
Original titleLe Règne de la quantité et les signes des temps
Translator1953: Lord Northbourne
LanguageFrench
SubjectsMaterialism, civilization, scientism, Idea of Progress
Published1945 (in French)
1953: Luzac
1972: Penguin Metaphysical Library
2001: Sophia Perennis
Publication placeFrance
Pages363 (Penguin)
284 (Sophia Perennis)
ISBN0-900588-67-5 (paperback edition)
ISBN 0-900588-68-3 (hardcover edition)
TextThe Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times at Internet Archive

The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (French: Le Règne de la Quantité et les Signes des Temps) is a 1945 book by the French intellectual René Guénon, in which the author offers a comprehensive explanation, based on tradition, of the cyclical conditions that led to the modern world in general and to the Second World War in particular. The book was published with the support of Jean Paulhan from Gallimard, who created a collection exclusively dedicated to "Tradition" in order to publish Guénon.

Reception

Jacob Needleman, in The Sword of Gnosis, writes:

"Many of Guénon's books, notably The Reign of Quantity, are such potent and detailed metaphysical attacks on the downward drift of Western civilisation as to make all other contemporary critiques seem half-hearted by comparison."

Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy:

"The Reign of Quantity is a brilliantly sustained and excoriating attack on modern civilisation The book is a controlled and dispassionate but devastating razing of the assumptions and values of modern sscience. At the same time it is an affirmation of the metaphysical and cosmological principles given expression in traditional culture and religions."

Translations

There are complete translations of Le règne de la quantité in a number of languages: English, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Persian, and Turkish. Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne being among the translators for the 1953 English version.

See also

References

  1. Sophia Perennis, books, The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
  2. "All editions for 'The reign of quantity and the signs of the times.'". WorldCat. Retrieved 1 April 2015.
  3. World Wisdom, Lord Northbourne

External links

René Guénon
Books
Miscellaneous
Categories: