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Connecting readers with great books since 1972. Used books may not include

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Think of this book as an expansion of the Appendix to The Abolition of Man,

Think of this book as an expansion of the Appendix to The Abolition of Man, in which C.S. Lewis brings together excerpts from the great religious traditions to underline the universality of 'the Tao, ' the common moral sense indelibly implanted in all humankind. Schumacher (though not explicitly) extends this methodology in a withering critique of scientific materialism and a description of an ontologically multi-layered universe, a 'chain of being' in which the invisible is vastly more significant than the empirical. He quotes Victor Frankl to describe the direction of his convictions: 'The true nihilism of today is reductionism. Contemporary nihilism no longer brandishes the word nothingness, today nihilism is camouflaged as nothing-but-ness. ' One could easily lump Schumacher together with numerous 'traditionalist' thinkers such as G.I. Gurdjieff, P.D. Ouspensky, Aldous Huxley, Rene Guenon, or Frithjof Schuon-he quotes heavily from several of them and inhabits the same thought-world-but his is a less esoteric and more commonsense approach. (It is relevant to relate that Schumacher was received into the Catholic Church a few years before this book was published. ) Don't mistake Guide for the Perplexed as an apologetic for Christianity or any other particular creed but rather as a powerful apologetic against the reigning reductionism of our age and the reality of a rich and reigning transcendent realm of Being, drawing us to itself. Light cover wear, firm binding, pages wrinkled and age-toned but unmarked.

0060906111. 147 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Gift inscription, lightly written in pencil, on front fly-leaf. No creases. Solid, clean. Trade Paperback.

0060906111. 147 pages; Very Good Plus condition. Gift inscription, lightly written in pencil, on front fly-leaf. No creases. Solid, clean. Trade Paperback.