Saturday, September 18, 2010

Nasr on Corbin

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, and Ramin Jahanbegloo. In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought. Santa Barbara, Calif: Praeger, 2010.


Below are the most important pages in Nasr's discussion of Corbin.

Nasr on Corbin From in Search of the Sacred

2 comments:

  1. It's one of the most important biographic text about Corbin. It gives new light on, who was Corbin, because this text explains a part of the intimate world of Corbin.

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  2. I would never have thought Corbin disliked Guenon and the traditionalists. I think they complement each other quite well. For example, Guenon's most enigmatic work, "The King of the World", becomes quite accesible once read with the understanding of the "mundus imaginalis" and the "hidden Imam". As Nasr observed: "[Corbin] was really the reviver of many aspects of traditional philosophy." Although I can understand Corbin's attack on Burckhardt, because my own impression is that he was not a great thinker. Then again, Corbin "definitely had sympathy" for Schuon's writings. That leaves me somewhat confused: what exactly was it that Corbin objected to in the writings of the traditionalists?! Probably the same as Schuon. The traditionalists were divided among each other. For example, Schuon in "Some Observations" is very critical about Guenon's over-intellectualization and anti-humanity, anti-individuality, anti-imagination, anti-mysticism and anti-Christianity. So probably it's that.

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