René Guénon was born in 1886 in Blois in central France 160 km (100 mi) from Paris. Like most Frenchmen of the time, he was born into a Roman Catholic family, originally from the Angevin, Poitou and Touraine provinces in France; [6] his father was an architect. He was very close to his mother and even more to his aunt Mme Duru, a teacher who taught him to read and write, …

In French, guenon was the common name for all species and individuals, both males and females, from the genus Cercopithecus. In all other monkey and apes species, the French word guenon designates only the females. [ 3 ]

guenon, (genus Cercopithecus), any of 26 species of widely distributed African monkeys characterized by bold markings of white or bright colours. Guenons are slim, graceful quadrupedal monkeys with long arms and legs, short faces, and nonprehensile tails that are longer than the combined head and body length of about 42–56 cm (16–22 inches).

2024年11月12日 · Rue René Guenon à Blois René Guénon a publié dix-sept ouvrages de son vivant, auxquels se sont ajoutés dix recueils d’articles posthumes, constituant un total de vingt-sept titres régulièrement réédités.

Cheeky fellows: Guenon (GWEN non) is the name for a group of medium-sized monkeys that have long back legs, a rounded head, a long tail that helps them balance while moving through the trees, and large cheek pouches. The word guenon comes from the French word for monkey.

2004年6月24日 · Guenon sees much to criticize in the democratic development of the West, seeing in democracy a form of mass levelling. Opposing these developments within the modern world, Guenon calls for a new intellectual elite, who will …

“Many of Guenon’s books . . . are such potent and detailed metaphysical attacks on the downward drift of Western civilization as to make all other contemporary critiques seem half-hearted by comparison.”

René Guénon (1886–1951), a towering figure in the perennialist school of thought, dedicated much of his intellectual life to defending the primacy of metaphysical principles against the encroachments of modernity.

2024年6月10日 · I feel this to be case, since the promise of Guenon’s “radical traditionalism” is the same as Mussolini’s idéal of the attainment of a “permanent and universal reality,” which is the necessary requirement for any person who wishes to act …