/lit/ - Literature

>>8644328
Beats me. I can't speak for what you are describing as 'new philosophical' Catholics, if only because I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not a Catholic myself (yet?), just someone who's begun considering what the Catholics have to say on questions that I thought were only of interest to psychoanalysts. Maybe you could expand on this?

I do think Guenon is highly interesting, though, and I'd be very open to more discussion about him. I'm surprised to have only come across him recently, and that he doesn't have more of a scholarly reputation. I think he's utterly brilliant and his thought has been a major discovery for me. But Tradition is I think something other than what Girard seems to be focusing on, which is this idea of Christianity as a demythologized religion, whereby it has this exceptional status for him.

I suspect Guenon will probably become more popular as right-wing politics continue to acquire momentum, but I'm not sure if it will be the same for Girard, who seems to represent more of a pacifistic universalism that may be on the decline, but is probably where the centre of my own moral compass is in some deep way. There are a lot of things I like and even admire about the reactionary worldview, but again: violence and myth. I like to know when and how it is justified. Carl Schmitt is another guy with some interesting stuff to say on this.

On a slightly different topic, there's an interesting and somewhat contrarian article here on the subject of religion and violence during the Thirty Years' War, if anyone is interested.
https://www.athenaeum.edu/pdf/Wars%20of%20Religion%20and%20The%20Rise%20of%20The%20State.pdf