Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief

The book has a twofold content and aim: on the one hand it offers a radical critique of the modern world, and on the other it seeks to expound a timeless wisdom. And the second end presupposes the first: for so long as we have not 'broken through the barrier of scientistic belief' as the subtitle has it, that timeless wisdom-that veritable sophia perennis-remains inaccessible."

And with its incisive expository and critique of a veritable "rogues' gallery" of modern thinkers, Cosmos and Trans...