/lit/ - Literature

>Reads Eastern texts in translation
>In the 1920s
Why am I supposed to listen to his opinions again? How is he any different than the Orientalists he bashed?

Can someone help me understand the difference for Evola of the aristocrat of the soul and the aristocrat of blood? I cant find many resources online

>>17714189
Maybe I guess I don't know desu

How do I use literature to get a cute gf when I'm a 31 year-old virgin with no redeeming qualities and a personality built from 4chan memes?

Is he the endgame of philosophy? People are reading him.

Explain his philosophy to me.

ITT: writers only incels care about.

>>14684205

Evola wasn't even white, he was a larper

Why is he just now becoming popular globally? Also, what is your opinion on Evola? I’ve read about 5 of his major works now and really enjoy his work, even if I don’t agree with all of it.

>>13371752
Unironically

>"...When nationalism speaks of 'tradition,' it has nothing to do with what used to go by that name in ancient civilizations; it is rather a myth or fictitious continuity based on a minimum common denominator that consists in the mere belonging to a given group. Through the concept of 'tradition,' nationalism aims at consolidating a collective dimension by placing behind the individual the mythical, deified, and collectivized unity of all those who preceded him. In this sense, Chesterton was right to call this type of tradition 'the democracy of the dead.' Here the dimension of transcendence, or of what is superior to history, is totally lacking.

>According to these aspects, it can be said that modern nationalism on the one hand confirms the renunciation of the pursuit of the upwards-oriented direction and the unification through what is supernatural and potentially universal, while on the other hand it distinguishes itself only by virtue of a mere difference of degree from the anonymity proper to the ideal of the Fourth Estate with its 'Internationals,' bent, as a matter of principle, on perverting every notion of homeland and of the national state. In reality, wherever the people have become sovereign and the king or the leader is no longer considered as being 'from above,' or to be ruling 'by God's grace,' but instead 'by the will of the nation' (even where the expression 'to rule by God's grace' has been preserved, it amounts to an empty formula)-it is precisely at this point that the abyss that separates a political organism of a traditional type from communism is virtually overcome-the fracture has occurred, all the values have shifted and been turned upside down; at this point one can only wait for the final stage to be ushered in. Thus, it is more than for mere tactical purposes that the leaders of world subversion in the last form, as it has been embodied in Soviet communism, have as their main goal the excitement, nourishing, and supporting of nationalism even where nationalism, by virtue of being anticommunist, should at least in principle turn against them. They see far away, just like those who employed nationalism for their own purposes during the early revolution (i.e., liberalism) when they said 'nation' but really meant 'antitradition' or the denial of the principle of true sovereignty. They recognize the collective potential of nationalism, which beyond contingent antitheses will finally dispose of the organisms that it controls."

Is he right?

>>13069010
I wonder if he made a good pasta sauce
>tfw you will never have spaghetti and meatballs with uncle julius

>>13032594
The whole point is we are already the last men
I thought that was pretty obvious
But yes Evola and Guenon are the logical next step down that path of thinking

>>13026282
"The final chapter ofRide the Tiger isentitled 'The Spiritual Problem'. In this chapter, I developed some of the ideas I had first discussed in the course of my critique of contemporary neo-spiritualism: I pointed out that the present is witnessing the spread of 'spiritualist' tendencies, which - generally speaking - reflect not a positive change of direction, but rather the decomposition of an age of twilight, and, in a way, embody the counterpart to the materialism of such an age. I sought to be as clear as possible regarding these matters, at the cost of potentially disillusioning those readers who had followed my work on esotericism, yoga and initiation so far. All 'neo-spiritualist' cases aside - neo-spiritualism usually serving merely as a poor surrogate for religion - when turning to consider genuine traditional sciences, one must always bear in mind that the present conditions of humanity, marked as they are by the rapid retreat and concealment of all true centers capable of exerting a transcendent influence upon man, makes the effective realization of any 'initiatory disclosure of consciousness' impossible, or only possible in exceptional circumstances."

Evola will go down as the most important thinker of the 20th century
More and more people are starting to discover him