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Review: Keys to the Beyond: Frithjof Schuon’s Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence , by Patrick Laude

2021; University of California Press; Volume: 25; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/nr.2021.25.2.140

1541-8480

Mark Sedgwick,

Biblical Studies and Interpretation

Book Review| November 01 2021 Review: Keys to the Beyond: Frithjof Schuon's Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence, by Patrick Laude Keys to the Beyond: Frithjof Schuon's Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence. By Patrick Laude. SUNY Press, 2020. 404 pages. $95.00 cloth; $34.95 paper; ebook available. Mark Sedgwick Mark Sedgwick Aarhus University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (2021) 25 (2): 140–141. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2021.25.2.140 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mark Sedgwick; Review: Keys to the Beyond: Frithjof Schuon's Cross-Traditional Language of Transcendence, by Patrick Laude. Nova Religio 1 November 2021; 25 (2): 140–141. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.2021.25.2.140 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentNova Religio Search Keys to the Beyond is a guide to the thought of Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), a Swiss philosopher of religion. His work has generally not been taken very seriously within the formal academic study of religion, but it has nonetheless been widely influential, both within and beyond academia. The scholarly status of Schuon's work, then, is something of a paradox: actually influential, but also generally ignored, and certainly inadequately discussed. The same is true of the work of the French philosopher of religion and esotericist René Guénon (1886–1951), the single most important influence on Schuon. The work of Guénon, Schuon, and some others is usually described as "Traditionalism" or "Perennialism," and is a particular instance and development of those two broad forms of thought. Schuon's ideas may be of particular interest to readers of Nova Religio because he was not only a philosopher of religion but also the founder and leader... You do not currently have access to this content.