/lit/ - Literature

>>20226646

1. If you want to dive straight in, and aren't afraid of reading through some extremely crunchy and dense technical ideas, read "Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times".

For a gentler introduction, try "The Crisis of the Modern World"

2. Not necessarily. I became an Orthodox Christian after reading him, rejected many of Guenon's false ideas, but kept all of the legitimate insights he had. He has completely crushing critiques of modernism that can't be unseen - if you seriously read him, you won't be able to stay an atheist materialist, at least.

>>20226546
He addresses the question of the western tradition of empirical investigation in Chapter 4 of "The Crisis of the Modern World", titled "Sacred and Profane Science." Here's the first page from it.