Dark Age

Violence, wars, injustices, hunger, and poverty affecting one and a half billion human beings, devastating mental illnesses, unemployment, widespread insecurity, and the global economic crisis are symptoms and signs of the times we live in, which have been exacerbated and intensified throughout the 20th century. René Guénon (1886-1951) attempts to clarify the underlying causes of these issues, tracing them back to the gradual oblivion of Tradition and the final advent of Modernity. Guénon, a great pioneer of that new approach to philosophy that, for a couple of decades, has been known as "intercultural philosophy," represents an effort to definitively overcome the colonial ideology-that is, the belief that Western culture is not only superior to the countless other cultures that have inhabited and still inhabit the planet, but also the sole custodian of true philosophy, true religion, true science, and so on. He interprets our time as the final phase of the Kali-yuga, the "dark age" foretold in traditional Hindu scriptures. Yet, there is nothing conservative or "reactionary" in his critique of Modernity, which is even more radical than Marx's critique of capitalist society and Nietzsche's critique of Western "decadence." Modernity, within the scenario of that immense alchemical process that is "history," beyond any "progressive" illusion, is a crucial era that must necessarily be traversed and integrated because, beyond its own postmodern dissolution, the original Wisdom-eternal and ever-new-will be fully re-manifested in the event of a "new earth and new heaven."
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