Well, you'll have fun with Parmenides when you get to it. Either that, or it will make you want to put your head through a wall. Or both.
As for Coulanges, I enjoyed the Ancient City a great deal, and certainly it's influenced my way of thinking as well. But where I think both Coulanges and this particular blogger go astray is with the idea of a kind of permanent tradition that endured-- the phrase recurs regularly in The Ancient City-- "through long ages." This is also the error of people like Guenon and Evola. There is no "traditional man"-- there are traditions, which always originate somewhere and somewhen, change over time, are lost, abandoned, rejected, revived, and repurposed based on the needs of real people.
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Date: 2023-12-23 06:20 pm (UTC)As for Coulanges, I enjoyed the Ancient City a great deal, and certainly it's influenced my way of thinking as well. But where I think both Coulanges and this particular blogger go astray is with the idea of a kind of permanent tradition that endured-- the phrase recurs regularly in The Ancient City-- "through long ages." This is also the error of people like Guenon and Evola. There is no "traditional man"-- there are traditions, which always originate somewhere and somewhen, change over time, are lost, abandoned, rejected, revived, and repurposed based on the needs of real people.