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The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
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The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times is a 1945 book by the French intellectual René Guénon, in which the author offers a comprehensive explanation, based on tradition, of the cyclical conditions that led to the modern world in general and to the Second World War in particular.
From the Wikipedia article The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, revision 1347975768, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q19902809: “book by René Guénon”.
In this study
In the chronology, in René Guénon's account.
His great critique of modern materialism and the reduction of quality to quantity.