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Are there any people that majorly influenced him that I need to look into first, like Kant with Schopenhauer? Or do I just go straight in? Where do I start?
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>> No.15601051

>>15600938
I’ve heard Nietzsche and Guenon are particularly important.

>> No.15601057
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Dumping evola log
read this first

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this also includes more preliminaries

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Finally once you're ready to start on Evola himself

>> No.15601094

>>15600938
What's with the crossword?

>> No.15601103

Nietzsche, Stirner, Bhagavad Gita, Plato, Aristotle, de Maistre, Guenon would probably suffice.

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>>15600938
>Bhagavad Gita
>Upanishads
>The Greeks [Homer, Plato, Aristotle mainly]
>Virgil - Aeneid
>Raido - Handbook of Traditional Living
>Proclus - The Elements of Theology
>Nietzsche
>Guenon - Crisis of the Modern World
>Guenon - Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the Times
>Joseph De Maistre - Considerations on France
The handbook of traditional living serves as a pretty good primer.
Obviously the greeks, but specifically the neoplatonists are a good idea.
Best QRD on neoplatonism comes from the Proclus book.
Evola absolutely adores the Gita and Aeneid so those are must reads - they heavily influence his warrior ethic.
Upanishads kinda establishes the Perrenial wisdom that the Western and Eastern traditions share (you'll see tons of overlap between the Hindu and neoplatonic systems).
Evola expands upon, criticises but also heavily utilises Nietzsche.
Lastly, Evola sees himself as conceptual contemporaries to the European Reactionary tradition exemplified by De Maistre and of the Traditionalist School of which Guenon influenced him the most.
Evola has some nice things to say about St. Thomas so if you really want you might want to read something like Edward Feser's Beginner's Guide to Aquinas.

>> No.15601121

>>15601057
>>15601075
so you're saying i gotta read a bunch of stupid shit to just understand one of his books? this seems super fucking annoying

t. someone passing by from another board

>> No.15601130

>>15601121
no the amounts posted in those lists are way too much
Gita, Aeneid, Republic, Beyond Good and Evil, Reign of Quantity are like the bare minimum you need

>> No.15601142

>>15601084
This is good but also stupid
Evola explicitly states that one should start with Revolt Against the Modern World because its both his Magnum Opus as well as the text he often assumes his readers have read in later books.
As much is obvious from Men Among the Ruins and Ride the Tiger.

>> No.15601170

>>15601130
sorry about trip.

Anyway so do i gotta read this shit if i want some profound awaking or can i just skip it all? i got "woke" around 06 and went down the wrong rabbit trail of hedonism. Can i skip all this shit? i mean am i really missing a bigger picture?

>> No.15601181

>>15601121
Yes

>> No.15601187

>>15601142
Evola never said that

>> No.15601292

I'm reading The Mystery of the Grail, not being well read in philosophy (a few pages of Jung, a half Nietzsche book years ago), I'm having a great time with it. If you have a basic understanding of white culture, watch STJ or the like, or even watched Excalibur from the 1980's.
I had attpted to begin with Revolt, but it was kind of hard to begin. Mystery is fun because it points out and explains the mysteries behind folklore, which should be easy to connect with.

>> No.15601319

>>15601170
Yea you'll miss the bigger picture
Either way, Gita, Aeneid, Republic and Beyond Good and Evil are either really short texts or are fairly fun to read or both.
Reign of Quantity is the only real densely written text to do prior to Evola.
I mean nothing is stopping you from just jumping straight into Revolt but it'll be really jarring if you do just do that without the prelim reading.
>>15601187
He repeatedly refers to Revolt as his "principle work". As much is implicit in what he says in RoT.
Goto Men Among the Ruin ch.5

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You don't need much, just Republic to understand basic metaphysics. Though after you read a bit of Evola, you should read Guenon, who in my opinion is much more interesting.

>> No.15601424

>>15601319
>He repeatedly refers to Revolt as his "principle work".
this isn't any sort of instruction to read Revolt before his non RATMW triology works

>> No.15601803

>>15601327
republic?

New to all this

>> No.15601872

>>15601803
Plato brah