Frithjof Schuon

Frithjof Schuon ( born June 18, 1907 in Basel; † 5 May 1998 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA ) was an Orientalist and world-renowned religious philosopher and metaphysician. His main works were published in French.

Along with René Guénon and Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, Schuon is considered as one of the three founders of the Traditionalist School. Frithjof Schuon is known as an energetic advocate of the Philosophia perennis or religio perennis and as a philosopher who is classified in the metaphysical current of Shankara and Plato. Strongly attracted to Schuon also felt by Indian people and their experience of the world with which he has dealt in several writings.

Life

Schuon was born as the son of German parents in Switzerland. At 13, studied in Paris, the Arabic language and Islamic culture. He undertook long journeys to North Africa, Turkey and India. 1959 and 1963, he visited several tribes of the Plains Indians and was adopted by the Lakota. In 1981, he moved to Indiana in the United States, where he died.

Works in selection

  • Guiding principles Urbesinnung. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich / Leipzig 1935; improved new edition under the title Urbesinnung. The thinking of the authentics Aurum -Verlag, Freiburg, 1989, ISBN 3-591-08277-5
  • Days and nights book. Urs Graf Verlag, Bern 1947
  • Sulamith. Urs Graf Verlag, Bern 1947
  • De l' unité transcendante des religions. 1948/1979 German edition: From the inner unity of religions. Verlag Hans -Jürgen Maurer, Freiburg, 2007, ISBN 978-3-929345-34-6 and Ansata Verlag Zemp, Interlaken, 1981, ISBN 3-7157-0042-4
  • Ger Edition: Understanding Islam. An introduction to the inner teachings and the mystical experience of a world religion. Barth, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-502-65541-3
  • German edition: The eternal in the ephemeral. From the one truth in ancient cultures. O. W. Barth, Weilheim, 1970, ISBN 3-87041-238-0
  • German edition: The Man and the certainty. Edition Menges, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-930698-73-0; last: Logic and transcendence. Wisdom of the world, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8495-4419-5, ISBN 978-3-8495-4451-5 ( e-book ).
  • German edition: Mysticism as a principle and as way. Wisdom of the world, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8472-4160-7 ( Print Book) ISBN 978-3-8472-4179-9 and (eBook )
  • German edition: metaphysics and esotericism at a glance. Wisdom of the world, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8472-8725-4 ( Print Book) ISBN 978-3-8491-1694-1 and (eBook )
  • Volume 1: Adastra, Stella Maris. 2001, ISBN 3-907862-00-7
  • Volume 2: Autumn leaves. The ring. 2002, ISBN 3-907862-01-5
  • Volume 3: Songs without names. Collections I, II, III. 2002, ISBN 3-907862-02-3
  • Volume 4: Songs without names. Collections IV, V. 2003, ISBN 3-907862-03-1
  • Volume 5: Songs without names. Collections VI, VII 2003, ISBN 3-907862-04- X
  • Volume 6: Songs without names. Collections VIII, IX, X. 2004, ISBN 3-907862-05-8
  • Volume 7: Songs without names. Collections XI, XII. 2004, ISBN 3-907862-06-6
  • Volume 8: The Weltrad. Collections I, II, 2004, ISBN 3-907862-07-4
  • Volume 9: The Weltrad. Collections III, IV, V. 2005, ISBN 3-907862-08-2
  • Volume 10: The Weltrad. Collections VI, VII 2005, ISBN 3-907862-09-0
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