Author: Francois Rene Chateaubriand
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: rene, atala
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 055927078X
ISBN-13: 9780559270789
Author: Francois Rene Chateaubriand
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: rene, atala
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2008-10-15
List price: $26.75
ISBN-10: 0559270771
ISBN-13: 9780559270772
Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: rene, atala
Published: 1952-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0520002237
ISBN-13: 9780520002234
Chateaubriand was the giant of French literature in the early nineteenth century. Drawing on eighteenth-century English romanticists, on explorers in America, and on Goethe’s Werther, he had a profound effect on French writers from Victor Hugo and Lamartine to George Sand and Flaubert. A quixotic and paradoxical personality, he combined impressive careers as a brilliant prose-poet, a spiritual guide, a high-ranking diplomat, and an enterprising lover.Atala and René are his two best-known works, reflecting not only his own joys, aspirations, and despair, but the emerging tastes of a new
Authors:Rene Descartes, René Descartes, Paul J. Olscamp,
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Keywords: meteorology, geometry, optics, method, discourse
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2001-03
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0872205673
ISBN-13: 9780872205673
A reprint of the Bobbs-Merrill edition of 1965. This volume preserves the format in which Discourse on Method was originally published: as a preface to Descartes’s writings on optics, geometry, and meteorology. In his introduction, Olscamp discusses the value of reading the Discourse alongside these three works, which sheds new light on Descartes’s method. Includes an updated bibliography.
Author: René Guénon
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Keywords: works, rene, guenon, collected, religion, history, pseudo, theosophy
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0900588802
ISBN-13: 9780900588808
Many readers of Guénon’s later doctrinal works have longed to hear the tale of his earlier entanglement, and disentanglement, from the luxuriant undergrowth of so-called esoteric societies in late nineteenth-century Paris and elsewhere. The present work documents in excoriating detail Guénon’s findings on what did, and did not, lie behind the Theosophical Society founded by Madame Blavatsky and Colonel Olcott in 1875. Much further information has of course come to light since this book was written, but it has never been superseded as a fascinating record of the path of a master metaphysi
Authors:René Guénon, Rene Guenon,
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Keywords: times, signs, quantity, reign
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-07
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0900588683
ISBN-13: 9780900588686
The Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the world, as it appears from the point of view of the ‘ancient wisdom’, formerly common both to the East and to the West, but now almost entirely lost sight of. The author indicates with his fabled clarity and directness the precise nature of the modern deviation, and devotes special attention to the development of modern philosophy and science, and to the part played by them, with their accompanying notions of progress and evolution, in the formation of the industrial and democratic society wh
Authors:René Guénon, Rene Guenon, Angus Macnab,
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Keywords: cross, symbolism
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 2004-02
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0900588667
ISBN-13: 9780900588662
The Symbolism of the Cross is a major doctrinal study of the central symbol of Christianity from the standpoint of the universal metaphysical tradition, the ‘perennial philosophy’ as it is called in the West. As Guénon points out, the cross is one of the most universal of all symbols and is far from belonging to Christianity alone. Indeed, Christians have sometimes tended to lose sight of its symbolical significance and to regard it as no more than the sign of a historical event. By restoring to the cross its full spiritual value as a symbol, but without in any way detracting from its his
