"Third Humanism" vs. "Traditionalism"?: The Correspondence between Werner W. Jaeger and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

This paper examines the so far unrecognized correspondence between the classical philologist Werner Jaeger and the art historian and metaphysician Ananda Coomaraswamy, one of the main spokesmen of the sophia perennis in the Guénonian sense. I will delineate the relevance of the "intellectual co...

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Main Author: Herkert, Felix (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [2020]
In: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2020, Volume: 86, Issue: 1, Pages: 328-343
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jaeger, Werner 1888-1961 / Humanism / Esotericism / Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 1877-1947 / Philosophia perennis / Guénon, René 1886-1951
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AX Inter-religious relations
AZ New religious movements
Further subjects:B Perennialism
B Esotericism
B perennialismo
B Third Humanism
B Ananda Coomaraswamy
B Letters
B Traditionalism
B terzo umanesimo
B Constellations
B Werner Jaeger
B Coomaraswamy, Ananda Kentish, 1877-1947
B Jaeger, Werner
B tradizionalismo