/lit/ - Literature

>>14470616
Why?

>>14470616
>Also, what are some good playlists to go with my reading?
Just listen to classical. Wagner is a good choice IMO.

>>14470638
why what?

>>14470616
>Also, what are some good playlists to go with my reading?
ppomo asmr

>>14470643
Why read Evola? Not criticizing, just curious

>>14470719
I'm interested in his political theory and paganism

>>14470719
Not the anon you're talking to but Evola is unironically one of the most brilliant and interesting philosophers of the 20th century. He is a rigorous hermetic and occultist and a natural phenomenologist who understands the limits of post Kantian philosophy, so he has very interesting takes on how we ought to deal with those limits.

Most contemporary philosophers are either so far up the ass of the one thing they study that they can't see anything else, or they have very vague and mushy ideas and don't understand the limits modern philosophy places upon itself. Or they do understand those limits, but they take completely for granted that the limits can't or shouldn't be transgressed. There are many hermetics and occultists who are happy transgressing these limits, but usually they don't have the philosophical chops necessary to understand what they are doing, so they fall into obvious pitfalls or habits that the contemporary philosopher rightly criticizes as naive. So you usually have to choose between boring contemporary philosophers who don't go anywhere with knowledge even when they have some, or hermeticists who have the will to go somewhere but don't know how to do it in a meaningful way. Evola is one of the rare few who combines both, and is talented at both to boot. He both understands the stakes and knows how to navigate the terrain.

Start with the Guenonians?

Listening to music while reading is for normies

>>14470616
Real life will start to seem like Lord of the Rings as your third eye opens. You will resist it at first, think you are going crazy, but then you will come to know that it has always been this way and the entire modern world is designed to shield you from the truth of Hyperborea.

That chart is dumb. There's no reason to start with the Mystery of Grail and all of it will go over your head unless you're already initiated into Traditionalism. Both the Doctrine of Awakening and the Yoga of Power reference Revolt Against the Modern World, and East & West make references to both of them. There's no logic to any of it. Why would Pagan Imperialism be a required work? It's a tiny collection of essays. Fascism Viewed from the Right is much more important and it's considered optional.

There's no logic to anything in the chart. It's garbage, please stop posting it. Start with Revolt because it is by far his most important work and almost everything references it on some level. The Handbook for Traditional Living by Raido has a really good summary and it might be worth starting with that, depending on how familiar you are with Traditionalism. After that you can jump into whatever looks interesting. There's no set reading order.

I was thinking doing the same thing but my uni nor city library doesn't even hold him

>>14473485
Could I start with Ride the Tiger? It's the one that interests me the most because of his critiques of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Shartre.

>>14473822
I think it stands on its own. You won't hurt yourself either way.

>>14472430
I don't know how people listen to music and read. Not even music without lyrics like classical. The only stuff I can listen to and read is ambient/drone/whitenoise on headphones to drown out the bullshit around me.

>>14473878
I think they're just idiots that think its what smart people are supposed to do. It's possible to read while music is playing in the background but at best it's worthless. You're either not paying attention to the music or it's distracting you from reading.

>>14470616
>>14470640
>Just listen to classical.
>Also, what are some good playlists to go with my reading?

Here is what Réné Guénon has to say on the matter, as narrated by Baron Julius Evola:
>Concerning non-vocal music, by which I mean one involving any use of pitched musical instruments, it is humbly and with all deference my opinion that all such activities should be abandoned in favour of purely vocal chants handed down through the oral tradition. It is more than likely that if a free reign of music was permitted in a society displaying even a slight state of decadence, there would remain very few musicians who display a true understanding of the traditional order and the purpose of music within it, which is a role purely subordinate to that of the traditional institutions; instead, as in the case of Europe, we might face ourselves with certain groups infiltrating the musical tradition and subverting it from within. Certainly, the historical record would bear this out. The events of the past few decades with the emergence of the most vile and repulsive 'composers' such as Erik Satie and Erwin Schulhoff offer the perfect example.

>>14474601
Are those Guenon's views or that of Evola? Any way, Guenon would blast modernist Egyptian music in his home.

>>14474809
It's a saying of Guénon recounted by Evola.
>Guenon would blast modernist Egyptian music in his home
He would probably get (rightly) executed by an Islamic court for that. He lived in a deeply traditional area.

>>14474601
What an absolute dipshit.

>>14474877
"I do remember the radio blaring in his home, and I was quite surprised at this. The reason the music struck me was that the radio was blaring out modernist Egyptian music of poor taste and this seemed incompatible with who and what Guenon was. It was like the blaring of radio in Indian bazzars..." - Rama Coomaraswamy

>>14474988
His name is literally coom
Wtf?

>>14474601
>>14474877
>>14474988
holy shit guenon was a fucking larp and a hack, i hate that monkey nigger so much more now

>>14474988
Do you think Guenon would listen to bladee if he was around today?

>>14474601
based

>>14476430
agreed

>>14470638
/pol/cel