/lit/ - Literature

Is this where I should start with Guenon?

>>11627389
Pic related it'll change your life. Modernism is degenerate and it's all (((their))) fault

Ride the Poop

looks like someone is ready to become redpilled

>>10080631

Nael is no typical cucked 6 year old, he freed the tiger in order to Ride the Tiger

>>10043747

>purposes a way to live
>is the same way but rewritten in sophist style

Can this idiotic book stop being a meme?

Is anybody here interested in Evola's work?

Would you rather have thinkers like Julius Evola populate our airwaves?

Read:

Who is Julius Evola? What does he want? Why does he matter? Do Fascists shit in the woods?

Ride the Tiger starts with some standard criticisms of the Liberal-Democratic-Capitalist-Constitutional world, as well as the Materialist-Marxist-Soviet-COMINTERN world, again noting their focus on material conditions while ignoring 'spiritual' or mental processes. He briefly discusses a few contemporary philosophers in this early stage of analysis. Most of his time is spent wrestling with Nietzsche, his implications from "God is dead", a Zarathusthra, the Apollonian-Dionysian dualism of society, and so forth. He makes a few brief criticisms of Heidegger, Marx and Stirner, and notes the 'new nihilism' of existentialism, and takes a good whack at Sartre.

So what does Evola propose instead? He starts with Nietzsche's view of what must come after nihilism, after God has died, and proposes his new society from there. He advocates something called 'radical traditionalism', with emphasis on the old institutions of Europe which existed before 1789, or perhaps before 476.

Evola is anti-cosmopolitan, anti-financial, anti-Marxist, anti-rational, anti-scientific, anti-pacifist, anti-materialist, anti-feminist, anti-egalitarian, anti-Christian, anti-individual, anti-modern, anti-democratic, anti-bourgeois.

This leaves us with tribal nationalism, agrarianism, neo-paganism, traditional family organization, an aristocratic caste system (with people like him on top, naturally - he was born into Italian nobility) as well as a bit of Eastern Mysticism thrown in, especially the 'Kali Yuga', the 432,000 year long age of darkness and sin in Hindu theology.

He is not solely an ordinary 'traditionalist', with reference to familial customs or little traditions. Instead he wants to throw out all of the changes over the past few hundred years and start again 'anew' with older traditions, a grand mystical warrior existence, 'riding the tiger'. Before the French Revolution, before Marxism, before 'human rights' or 'democracy'.

This is where Evola shows his true inner self - not in his criticism, but what he does advocate. He snarls at modern society, but perhaps because it has passed him by. He is frightened of the 'degeneracy' of the world, and such is made very clear.

He advances a few tentative points against 'scientific rationalism', but these are laughably muddled. For example, because he does not understand atomic theory, it is therefore 'useless knowledge' and to be discarded.

1/2

Best place to start with Evola?

>>9023102
Ride the Tiger by Evola

It worth the 20 bucks?

ITT: books no woman has ever liked

Is Evola worth reading? And should I start with Revolt Against the Modern World, Men Among the Ruins, or Ride the Tiger?

Let's have a simple thread. What book are you currently reading? If you have more than one on the go, which one did you last read from?

>pic related

Ride the Tiger ?

This book is salvation against nihilism.

Nothing changes

Why the fuck did I decide to read this book. My head hurts after reading just the first 5 chapters and it's making me depressed.
Anybody else read this and get like this?

Has anybody read any Julius Evola? Just picked this up, the first chapter is already speaking to me.

Any similar recommendations would also be appreciated.

Did anybody read this? What do you think?