French thinker Rene Guénon is one of the most unusual figures in the history of philosophy of the 20th century. He was in the Sufi order of Shadiriyya under the name Abd al-Wahid Yahya, was married to the daughter of the Egyptian sheikh - a descendant of Muhammad. Guenon never taught at the university and did not consider himself the discoverer or creator of his own teaching, believing that he simply conveys truths to Europeans that are understandable to any inhabitant of the East. However, in the scientific world, he is considered the author of a number of concepts and the founder of a whole direction in philosophy - traditionalism. His goal was to return humanity to Tradition - the totality of "inhuman" knowledge transmitted from generation to generation by the caste of initiates. In this book, Guenon makes a disappointing diagnosis of modern Western civilization, which turned out to be really visionary, and offers his understanding of the possibilities for the further development of human civilization. For specialists in the field of history, philosophy, geopolitics, political science, sociology.