Guénon’s relevance to debates about modernity is increasing despite remaining subversive.

Evidence

In this schema, Guénon occupies the category of the subversive author. His followers and disciples are relatively few but are many in absolute numbers. He generated a discursive momentum on a small scale, perhaps embryonic, but the relevance of his “work” to debates about modernity is increasing. It is unlikely that his “work” will evolve beyond the current stage of subversivity, but Foucault’s discursive “analogies” may be at work, by which I mean that an “analogical” author—one who updates Guénon’s “work” with reinvigorated relevance—may substitute for Guénon as Guénon. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 343