/lit/ - Literature

>>11911769
Follow this chart. Ignore the naysayers. Be yourself.

>>11881876
This is copied from the old traditionalist general
>Thread for discussing the ideas and books of thinkers associated with the Traditionalist school, sometimes also known as the Perennialist school. Including but not limited to:
- Rene Guenon
- Martin Lings
- Seyyed Hossein Nasr
- Frithjof Schuon
- Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
- Julius Evola
- Titus Burckhardt
- Philip Sherrard
- Marco Pallis etc
>Also thinkers indirectly affiliated, influenced by, or similar to Traditionalism:
- Henry Corbin
- William Chittick
- Mircea Eliade
- Arthur Avalon
- Aleksandr Dugin etc

Friendly chart for anons who want to start with Guenon

How do I get into Guenon?

What should I read while reading him?

Also any good audiobooks of him?

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>>11741361
I don't trust guides that doesn't describe the books they're recommending since it seems like the people who make many of them will just include random or vaguely related shit because they don't know any better. They haven't read the books but they feel like they should be included anyway.

>>11671417
Got ya covered.

Hey /lit/, how do I not be fucking retarded?

When I was a kid I was designated as gifted and my IQ is supposedly above 130 but I fucking don't get philosophy. I can analyse regular books easily but when it comes to philosophy I can't really get anything.

What's wrong with me? Am I just a pseud?

>>11647460

If I keep reading Guenon will i eventually turn into a theist?

Guenon chart

Is there any university in Australia that offers semiotics or aesthetics classes in their arts degrees? Or any kind of literary study that's not geared towards deconstructionism and criticism.

I've been looking online and it seems like it's difficult to avoid the plague of critical theory in the humanities. The "death of the author"and criticism's subsequent rise has done nothing but mean that all aspects of an art being studied are taken out of context and operationalized for their sociopolitical uses.

Or am i just a philistine and postmodern arts degrees good?

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>>11189771
This is a good book, but for the love of God do not try to read this book before you have read any Rene Guenon. Read up to "Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times" at a bare minimum, and this isn't even the best book to start with Evola.

Seriously. You won't understand what in the fuck he is talking about without understanding the basis of Traditionalism.

>>11162515
Really I think you should start reading Traditionalist literature. You seem to have the right disposition for it. Rene Guenon more or less founded the school of thought and his works form the basis. I can't overstate how profound his thinking was. He's extremely obscure, although there is a Traditionalist presence on /lit/.

>>11145932
woops wrong pic