/lit/ - Literature

>>21251826
>Honestly, I don't know anything about philosophy, i just found the pic on /pol/ a week ago
If you are this new to philosophy but also want to read Guenon and Evola, then I strongly recommend you first read Reality: From Metaphysics to Metapolitics by Mynand de Beer. Not only does the book introduce the reader to philosophical concepts like ontology, epistemology and others, it also discusses and compares the Platonist, Aristotelian, Neoplatonist, and early Christian world views to our modern one. After that, read 'What "Tradition" Is' from Bow and the Club to know what exactly what Evola means by Tradition (hint: it has nothing to do with its colloquial conception) and also read What Is "Metaphysical Reality?" from Introduction to Magic volume 3 to know what the Traditionalist concept of metaphysics. Then, read Path of Cinnabar. It's very important to start with this book because, the book is an intellectual biography, where Evola explains the reasons for writing his books and his thoughts on them, and more importantly, there was a clear shift in his thought between pre-WW2 and the postwar periods. You can skip the chapter where he talks about Magical Idealism since it's the most dense part of the book by far, but luckily he abandoned it, which makes skipping that part inconsequential. After reading PoC, you can start with Revolt Against the Modern World.