English

In frame of new International Project "Tradition" 15-16 October 2011 in Moscow will take place the international conference «Against Post-Modern World (actual problems of traditionalism)».

Main topics:

• The Tradition and the Postmodernity.
• The Desecularization (the revival of the religious factor).
• The Eschatology (orthodoxy and heterodoxy).
• The problem of initiation.
• The Reign of post-Quantity.
• The Revision of the traditionalist discourse
• The Tradition and Revolution

Conference sessions

Section I. The Christianity and neoplatonism
• Origenes and his heritage
• The Cappadocian Fathers (neoplatonic legacy in Trinitarian dogmatic)
• Saint Denys Areopagit
• Christian gnosis and Gnosticism
• Neoplatonic tendencies in the Western Christianity (from Boetius to the scholasticism)
• Neoplatonism in Renaissance

Section II. "Tradition vs. Postmodernity. "
• Traditionalism and politics in XXI century
• Traditionalism and global elite
• Fourth Political Theory and Tradition
• Actuality of Rene Guenon and its heritage (Genon's legacy, sociology, Post-Modernity)
• The spiritual “nordism” and its metaphysics
• Traditionalism and the problem of monotheism
• Jean Parvulesco and his legacy

Section III. "Horizons of the new metaphysics and the figure of Radical Self. "
• Eschatological gnosis
• New Metaphysics and the sociology of imagination: radical traject and the archeomodernity as condition
• The language and the realm of denotatum in New Metaphysics
• New Metaphysics and the problem of chaos

Section IV. "The mission of Julius Evola. "
• Traditionalism without Tradition
• Tradition and Revolution
• Julius Evola: viewed from the left
• Evola and the West
• Hermetic Tradition
• Platonism and paganism

Section V. "Traditionalism and esotericism in Islam. "
• The concept of Chechenian traditionalism
• Philosophy of Ishraq
• Geidar Jemal’s concept of the “revolution of the prophets”
• Metaphysical topics in the modern islam fundamentalism (wahhabism, salafism, Al-Qaeda)

Section VI. "Traditionalism and the problem of language. "
• The primordiality as a problem.
• Hyperborean theory and Herman Wirth’s heritage
• Traditionalism and the process of denotation
• The concept of counter-initiation and its meanings (semantic approach)

Section VII. The metaphysics of chaos
• The mythology of chaos
• Chaos and Khora in Plato
• Chaos and Heidegger
• G.Deleuze: chaosmos, ply, Post-Modernity and baroque
• Chaos and Thelema: theory, rites, practices
• The voice from the nothing: Yuri Mamleev’s metaphysics

Section VIII "Qabbalah and neoplatonism"
• Lurian Qabballah
• Ramhal and his heritage
• The eschatological topics in Qabballah
• Qabballah and Post-Modernity

There will be the participation of different Western traditionalists (among other prof. Claudio Mutti). During the conference will be held a personal exhibition of Russian artiste Alexey Belyaev-Gintovt and other art collectives.

To participate in the conference are invited the authors of publications on the philosophy of traditionalism and similar issues, as well as those who interested in the development of traditionalist thought in Russia.
The lingua franca will be Russian and English (translation is granted of some parts – not in whole).

To participate in the conference one should send an application indicating your personal data to address [email protected] (for audience), and the theses of your proposed report (for participants). Theses must be given in electronic form in the text editor Word (Russian, Englisn, French, Portuguese, Spanish, German, Italian and other). Times New Roman, size 14.

As a result of the conference will be published a book of materials.

Chairman of organizing committee Natella Speranskayа [email protected]