The Essential Titus Burckhardt: Reflections on Sacred Art, Faiths, and CivilizationsWorld Wisdom, Inc, 2003 - 328 pages An introduction to the thought of one of the greatest perennialist authors of the twentieth century. |
Contents
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2 Traditional and Modern Science | 21 |
The Perspective of Traditional Cosmology | 23 |
Traditional Symbolism and Modern Empiricism | 26 |
Hindu | 279 |
The Sun Dance and the Sacred Pipe | 284 |
7 Evocations of Traditional Moroccan Life | 291 |
Return to Fez | 293 |
Itos Cave | 299 |
The Fools of God | 303 |
The Combmaker | 306 |
The Life of the Nomad | 308 |
The Theory of Evolution | 28 |
Contra Teilhard de Chardin | 41 |
Modern Psychology | 44 |
Islamic Science | 65 |
The Cosmology of the Arab Philosophers | 78 |
3 Sacred Art as the Expression of Religious Truth | 85 |
The Universality of Sacred Art | 87 |
Hindu Art | 94 |
Buddhist Art | 100 |
Taoist Art | 106 |
Christian Art | 112 |
Islamic Art | 150 |
4 History the Governance of Men and Nations and the Modern World | 159 |
The Nature of Kingship | 161 |
The Law of Hierarchy and the Four Social Stations | 165 |
Chess as a Symbol of Rulership | 168 |
St Catherine of Siena and the City of the Soul | 170 |
What is Conservatism? | 181 |
Riding the Tiger | 187 |
The Irruption of the Modern World as it Affected Morocco | 193 |
5 Alchemy | 203 |
Insight into Alchemy | 205 |
The Witness of an African Goldsmith | 207 |
Nature can Overcome Nature | 209 |
The Story of Nicolas Flamel and his Wife Perrenelle | 221 |
6 Aspects of the Spiritual Life | 229 |
Christian | 231 |
Islamic | 259 |
Biographical Notes | 310 |
Bibliography of Titus Burckhardt | 311 |
Books in German | 312 |
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Books in French | 314 |
Translations from Arabic into French | 316 |
Articles in English | 317 |
Translations from Arabic into French and then into English | 319 |
Books in Italian | 320 |
Books in Spanish | 321 |
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II | ii |
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