Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy

✍ Scribed by Michael Oren Fitzgerald

• Publisher: World Wisdom
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 298
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering the most comprehensive biography of Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998) yet published, Fitzgerald's work features quotations from Schuon?s articles, books, memoirs, and correspondence, combined with a wealth of reliable information from people who knew Schuon well. With over 75 color and black-and-white photos and illustrations, readers will gain valuable insights into the life and work of the foremost representative of the Perennialist or ?Traditionalist? school of comparative religious thought.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
......Page 1
About Frithjof Schuon
......Page 2
About this Book
......Page 3
Series Page
......Page 4
Title Page
......Page 8
Copyright page
......Page 9
Table of Content
......Page 12
Frithjof Schuon in 1965
......Page 13
Foreword
......Page 14
Preface
......Page 20
Introduction
......Page 22
1. Childhood
......Page 42
2. A Time of Suffering......Page 51
3. Entry into Manhood......Page 54
4. Introduction to René Guénon......Page 59
5. Beginning to Write......Page 62
6. The Shaykh al-‘Alawī......Page 68
7. Descent of Responsibility......Page 77
8. War Years......Page 83
9. A Heavenly Gift......Page 89
10. Essentiality and Universality......Page 93
11. At Variance with Guénon......Page 95
12. Marriage and a New Home......Page 99
Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy......Page 101
13. A View of Daily Life......Page 104
14. Travels......Page 113
15. Noteworthy Encounters......Page 119
16. The American Indian Spirit......Page 125
17. A Spiritual Patroness......Page 136
18. An Artistic Dimension......Page 142
19. Expanding Readership......Page 153
20. The Move to America......Page 156
21. Reflections......Page 163
22. The Close of Two Cycles......Page 169
23. A Profusion of Songs......Page 172
24. Departure......Page 177
Afterword......Page 178
APPENDIX I......Page 182
APPENDIX II......Page 187
APPENDIX III......Page 193
NOTES......Page 204
GLOSSARY OF FOREIGN TERMS AND PHRASES......Page 268
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 278
INDEX......Page 285
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES......Page 296