René Guénon (1886-1951) was a great leader who could appeal to all sides. Beyond its blatant exclusivism and its drastic anti-modernity, he created a solid bridge between the East and the West. In deed, its time was influenced by the discovery, for the West, of the abundance of eastern doctrines and at the same time the West sunk in a spiritual famine promoting the appearance of syncretism movements and a radicalization of the roman church. René Guénon studied metaphysic of different revealed religions and tried to extract the very substance from it: the Traditionalist School (Sophia Perennis). The Tradition goes beyond difference of opinion, beliefs or customs, that are always different (so contingent?).
So it takes on their common stock, their truth and constitutes the sediment that bounds them to the Principle.
Rigorous metaphysician, unequalled popularizer and declared enemy to occultist drifts of his time, Rné Guénon acquired a universality that few Western intellectuals could reach. Sixty years after his death: who are his heirs? Where can we find them? And what is the content of his legacy?
Jean-Pierre Laurant, Jean-Marc Vivenza and Bruno Bérard try to answer these questions. To Jean-Pierre Laurant “the legacy of René Guénon should have remained an indivision…” To Jean-Marc Vivenza, it is a “field of possibilities wide and contradictory”. While Bruno Bérard precises that “to appreciate what René Guénon gave, one has to define its limits… in order to keep things objective and to comprehend it better”.
René Guénon never commited himself as a spiritual master and never looked for the company of a disciple. His spiritual sons are numerous: they are muslims, Hinduists, catholics and freemasons.
Do you want to get familiar to the thought of this great metaphysician who, although he had swept away all the subjects that his contemporaries liked: Freudian psychology, political sphere, sociology haven’t changed at all?
Our three participants’ answer in these two 50-minutes parts presented by Olivier da Silva.
René Guénon (1886-1951) was a great leader who could appeal to all sides. Beyond its blatant exclusivism and its drastic anti-modernity, he created a solid bridge between the East and the West. In deed, its time was influenced by the discovery, for the West, of the abundance of eastern doctrines and at the same time the West sunk in a spiritual famine promoting the appearance of syncretism movements and a radicalization of the roman church. 
