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Is Julius Evola a pseudo-intellectual hack?

>> No.11365839

>>11365835
No.

>> No.11365846

>>11365839
Not even

>> No.11365847

>>11365835
yes

>> No.11365852

>>11365847
No.

>> No.11365876

>>11365847
I think so too.

>> No.11365895

>>11365835
yes, but he's not the biggest one

>> No.11365899

>>11365876
No.

>> No.11365903

>>11365852
yes, he is he lied constantly about what he wrote about. every single subject is badly researched and full of his own ideas. Guenon does the same stupid fucking shit. Read PRIMARY SOURCES not academics and not dilettantes or pseud cognoscenti

>> No.11365908

>>11365903
Felchmong.

>> No.11366343

>>11365903
Do you have some specific examples of this?

>> No.11366451
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>>11365903
Guenon is actually right most of the time. The only times I've seen Guenon be wrong is with stuff later proven by science decades later but which was unclear at the time. With Evola I see basic mistakes that wouldn't have happened if he had read the primary sources.

>>11366343
Evola claimed Buddhism was aristocratic and elitist while it was really the revolutionary and anti-hierarchical teaching of it's time that undermined traditional social structures. He also wrote that Advaita Vedanta was a Dravidian/non-Aryan development away from the Vedic tradition that led to hedonistic nihilism, when in fact non-dualism is found all throughout the Vedas, Vedanta is pro-hierarchy and tradition through extolling the caste system, and it strictly teaches that lust and craving are bad and to be abandoned.

If he could get such basic premises as these wrong, it doesn't make me trust that he got much else correct.