Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century Mordecai Richler half New Englander

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He starts from a polemical concern with behaviourism and other reductionist theories (particularly in psychology and the philosophy of language) which aim to model the study of man on the natural sciences

traveling around the country under aliases before finally giving up and serving time in prison

Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century Mordecai Richler half New EnglanderThe first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little known twentieth century anti modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of religious studies in the United States. In the nineteenth century, at a time when progressive intellectuals had lost faith