{"product_id":"2026200015168-secondhand-knowledge-and-the-sacred","title":"Knowledge And The Sacred","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of philosophy, spirituality, and intellectual history stands Knowledge and the Sacred, a landmark work that mounts a profound challenge to the dominant assumptions of Western modernity. Delivered as the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1981, this magisterial text argues that the desacralization of knowledge — the stripping away of its transcendent, divine dimension — lies at the very heart of the modern world's spiritual crisis. Nasr chronicles the historical trajectory through which sacred knowledge was gradually displaced by a purely rationalistic and materialistic epistemology, tracing this rupture across civilizations and intellectual traditions from the ancient world to the present day.\n\nDrawing upon an extraordinarily broad command of Islamic philosophy, Western metaphysics, Hinduism, Buddhism, and the perennial philosophy, Nasr constructs a sweeping vision of what it means to truly *know*. His prose is erudite yet impassioned, that of a scholar equally at home in the libraries of Tehran and the lecture halls of Cambridge. Knowledge and the Sacred stands as one of the most significant works of comparative philosophy and religious thought of the twentieth century — a clarion call to rediscover the sacred roots of human understanding, leaving the reader to wonder what has truly been lost in the relentless march of secular progress.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203188302043,"sku":"2026200015168-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3de7151e-abd2-4051-a304-d5f9fa5d8cad.png?v=1788145304","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015168-secondhand-knowledge-and-the-sacred","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}