After years in the making, my dissertation, Beyond the Veil of Modernity: René Guénon, Prophet of the Metapolitical Imaginary, was finally made publicly available at the end of May 2026. In a rare distinction for a doctoral dissertation, it was reviewed by Mark Sedgwick on Traditionalists, his blog devoted to the study of Traditionalism. You can read the review HERE and download the dissertation through CUNY Academic Works.

The dissertation argues that Guénon’s work should be understood not simply as a spiritual or metaphysical project, but also as a metapolitical one: an attempt to displace the modern ethical order and replace it with a radically different conception of spiritual and political authority.

The version currently available online, which runs close to 340 pages, is only about half of the work as originally conceived. Several sections central to the main argument were removed, notably Chapter 5, which examines Guénon’s life in Cairo, and two extensive appendices on Julius Evola and Mircea Eliade.

I intend to publish a restored and expanded version in the coming months. By reinstating this material, the new version will make a fuller and, I believe, more convincing case for the intellectual power and historical influence of the Traditionalist constellation formed by Guénon, Evola, and Eliade.