Disciples of a New Faith: Reading Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’ in Light of René Guénon
‘Blood Meridian’ as a depiction of René Guénon's “Reign of Quantity,” the pathological worship of Reason, and a demonically inverted counter-Tradition.
‘Blood Meridian’ as a depiction of René Guénon's “Reign of Quantity,” the pathological worship of Reason, and a demonically inverted counter-Tradition.
Words “The name that can be named is not the eternal name.” — Tao Te Ching Putting it into words hides the essence of what it is, And yet I can’t stop striving to capture in words, that which I’ve known only in silence. It’s a losing battle,...
This paper was first published in the journal Herald of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina (est. 1889) no. 53, year 2025, pp. 15-56, and it is republished here with the journal’s kind permission. The poem it discusses, known as ‘Hasanaginica’, which originated in the seventeenth century,...