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| The Essential Whitall Perry |
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Subjects(s):
Comparative Religion
Perennial Philosophy
Tradition
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Price: $19.95
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ISBN: 978-1-936597-78-9
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Book Size: 6" x 9"
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# of Pages: 336
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Language: English
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Description: “The Essential Whitall Perry”
Whitall N. Perry has been called “the most authoritative traditionalist of American background” and “a latter-day transcendentalist in the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau.” The editor of the monumental A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom, Perry was one of the very few people who was personally acquainted with all four of the leading figures of the traditionalist or perennialist school: René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon (the two originators) and Ananda Coomaraswamy and Titus Burckhardt (the two continuators). This compilation of Perry’s essential writings includes a wide array of his articles as well as selections from his letters and other previously unpublished writings.
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Whitall N. Perry has been called “the most authoritative traditionalist of American background” and “a latter-day transcendentalist in the tradition of Emerson and Thoreau.” The editor of the monumental A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom, Perry was one of the very few people who was personally acquainted with all four of the leading figures of the traditionalist or perennialist school: René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon (the two originators) and Ananda Coomaraswamy and Titus Burckhardt (the two continuators). This compilation of Perry’s essential writings includes a wide array of his articles as well as selections from his letters and other previously unpublished writings.
Whitall Nicholson Perry (1920-2005) was born to a prominent Boston Quaker family. During his life he maintained ties with authorities in Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Native American circles. In addition to his monumental A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom (1971), he contributed articles on metaphysics, cosmology, and modern counterfeits of spirituality to various journals, including notably Studies in Comparative Religion. Perry is the author of Gurdjieff in the Light of Tradition (1978), The Widening Breach (1995), and Challenges to a Secular Society (1996).
Harry Oldmeadow was Coordinator of Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University Bendigo, Australia. A well-respected authority on the perennialist school of comparative religion, he is the author of Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy (2010) and Black Elk, Lakota Visionary (2018). He lives in Bendigo, Australia.
William Stoddart was for many years the assistant editor of Studies in Comparative Religion. He was a close associate of both Frithjof Schuon and Titus Burckhardt during the lives of these leading perennialists and translated several of their works into English. Stoddart is the author of Remembering in a World of Forgetting (2008). He died in Windsor, Ontario, in 2023.
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According to Harry Oldmeadow , Whitall Perry (1920 – 2005) was "the most authoritative traditionalist of American background." Many researchers, editors, and authors whose works delve into the fields of comparative religion, philosophy, metaphysics, or spirituality have used Whitall Perry's A Treasury Of Traditional Wisdom as an essential reference tool since its publication in 1971. It is a magisterial compendium of spiritual doctrine spanning ail history and every spiritual tradition. Perry also contributed to the book, Ye Shall Know the Truth .
Whitall Perry's early intellectual interests included Platonism and Vedanta, and he traveled extensively in the Middle and Far East both before and after World War II with a brief interlude of study at Harvard University. He was one of several Harvard students who came under Ananda Coomaraswamy's influence in the 1940s.
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Harry Oldmeadow was co-ordinator of Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University in Australia and author of the acclaimed Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy (2000), an authoritative introduction to the perspective of Perennialism. Prof. Oldmeadow's contributions to World Wisdom books & DVDs include:
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William Stoddart (June 25, 1925–November 9, 2023) was a Perennialist author, editor, and translator who was active in advancing the understanding of the writings of Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, and others, for over 50 years. Dr. Stoddart's most recent publications with World Wisdom are An Illustrated Outline of Buddhism: The Essentials of Buddhist Spirituality, What Does Islam Mean in Today’s World?, and Outline of Sufism: The Essentials of Islamic Spirituality. A compilation of his writings, Remembering in a World of Forgetting, was edited by M. Soares de Azevedo and A. Vasconcellos Queiroz. Stoddart also edited The Essential Titus Burckhardt, and was perhaps the greatest authority on the work of this great Swiss traditionalist. Dr. Stoddart's other contributions in World Wisdom books include:
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“Whitall N. Perry was a man of discernment and a man of prayer. . . . His writings were carefully researched, and invariably delivered an immense amount of information as well as evincing much learning. . . . The purpose of this book is to perpetuate his memory and message for future generations.”
—William Stoddart, author of Remembering in a World of Forgetting
“The message of these essays . . . is as fresh as when first written, for they issue from a perspective which is perennial and universal. . . . [They are] without doubt a precious addition to the library of traditional works.”
—Seyyed Hossein Nasr, author of Knowledge and the Sacred
“The Essential Whitall Perry offers a cross-section of Perry’s published work. . . . This representative sample of writings gives some idea of the breadth of Perry’s interests and the continuing pertinence of his themes and concerns. . . . [It] also affords us some glimpses of the man himself.”
—Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy
“An acute instinct for the true guided my father to skewer popular spiritual frauds and fads, as the reader will discover in this star-studded summary of his writings.”
—Mark Perry, author of The Mystery of Individuality
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