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Crisis of Religious Symbolism Book Description Jean Borella, who examines the breaking points in the Western world where the language's direction of thought to the Sky/Sacred with its symbolic content and esotericity, in order for the transcendent to touch or be comprehended by humans, is interrupted in the Western world; first the physical paradigm (on the axis of Galileo, Copernicus), then the intellectual paradigm (on the axis of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant and Hegel), then the linguistic paradigm (on the axis of Sausseerre, Humboldt, Wietgenstien), then the social paradigm (on the axis of Roussauo, Marx, Engels), It reveals that then the spiritual paradigm (on the axis of Freud and Jung), then the semantic paradigm (on the axis of Feurbach, Foucault, Derride), and finally the cultural paradigm (on the axis of C. Levi Strauss) are being pulled from the metaphysical, linguistic and intellectual structure into a physical/profane area and tried to be imprisoned. It tries to convey and refute how the symbolic and therefore sacred nature of the meaning derived from the given language - or the language derived from the given meaning - has been secularized and sterilized in Western thought, with an in-depth analysis that dominates the world of thought. Borella meticulously scans the intellectual corridors where Western thought, which aims to exclude and throw away the symbol with a radical approach, tries to strangle the transcendent and sacred; He reveals with intellectual effort that the main aim of modern civilization is "to destroy the religious spirit of humanity". The Crisis of Religious Symbolism, which is a critical and multi-faceted effort to prove the existential necessity of symbolism, which is tried to be drowned in rationalism, is a very important text that also discusses the semantic and symbolic necessity of truth/transformation. Of course, it is essential to remember this: The symbol mentioned here is not the produced/artificial symbol of modern thought and art, but the created/natural symbol that is inherent in traditional thought and existence itself and leads to the transcendent. (From the Promotional Bulletin)