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Original title Le règne de la quantité et les signes des temps Published 1945 (in French)
1953: Luzac
1972: Penguin Metaphysical Library
2001: Sophia Perennis Pages 363 (Penguin)
284 (Sophia Perennis) ISBN 0-900588-67-5 (paperback edition)
ISBN 0-900588-68-3 (hardcover edition) Translator Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne (1953) Subjects Materialism, Civilization, Scientism, Idea of progress Similar René Guénon books, Comparative religion books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times (French: Le règne de la quantité et les signes des temps) is a book by René Guénon first published in 1945. It has been called "his best-known work", and it expands on themes already present in his previous The Crisis of the Modern World (La Crise du monde moderne, 1927).
Translations
So far, there are complete translations of Le règne de la quantité in a number of languages: English, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish.
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