29.07.10
Webb books
MBFM said,
29.07.10 at 10:17 am ·
I have to echo Nemo; James Webb’s books are highly informative, but they are not cheap.All I can offer by way of consolation is this: I have been at a bookstore that specializes in occult/metaphysical books of high quality.
They had a copy of The Occult Establishment, in paperback, and unmarked for 70 dollars USD, not including sales tax.
By going onto http://www.bookfinder.com and doing some comparison shopping, I got a copy for half that price, but had to settle for a copy that had ball point pen markings and a slight tainted ‘old book’ funk scent.
Unless someone can be persuaded to re-issue new editions of all of James Webb’s books, we will have to buy em used.
And if you do own any of Webb’s books NEVER under any circumstances loan them out.I had to repurchase The Harmonious Circle. Ten years ago, I had a copy and gave it to someone who ran a private library. The person lost the book and it never was added to the library collection. The person was either an absent minded type or may have loaned it to someone who ditzed out and failed to return it.
Some books are valuable enough to be worth making a single photocopy on archival paper. Webb’s books are among them.
If anyone can be considered one of James Webb’s successors, it would be Professor Mark A Sedgwick, who has published the first *objective *survey of Guenonian/Schuonian/Evolian Traditionalism, studying it as one social movement among many, and thus situating it on the map of western intellectual history–for which he has been resented and excoriated.
Sedwick’s book is entitled Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century.
Sedgwick makes clear that this is a study of Traditionalism as a social movement and hopes that his book will be only the beginning and lay the way for others to continue this research.
http://www1.aucegypt.edu/faculty/sedgwick/trad/againstreviews.htm
all one has to do is look at reviews on Amazon and elsewhere and see tha that the ones who dislike the book most are the ones who resent any demonstration that their social movement is not priviliged but can be seen not as The Truth, but as one social movement among many, and one that cannot exist apart from modernity itself.
nemo said,
29.07.10 at 2:29 pm
We will get the books, not to worry.
I was getting them before from the Columbia Library
but that’s not so convenient now.