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15939908 No.15939908 [Reply] [Original]

Is Evola a good litmus test on how involved someone is in political philosophy?

>> No.15939920

No

>> No.15940001

Literally nobody outside of /pol/ gives a shit about him

>> No.15940045

>>15940001
That's why they're the best board in the internet

>> No.15940153

No, and his best books are apolitical.

>> No.15940166

everybody on /lit/ just knows him for having written revolt, but that's by far his worst book. nobody who has a simplistic dislike for evola has read him or even understands him.

>> No.15940231

>>15940166
what should a person read instead of revolt against the modern world?

>> No.15940258
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15940258

>>15940231
the reading list

>> No.15940345

>>15940045
Most of the people on /pol/ are too retarded to understand Evola and only meme him because he's fascist adjacent. /pol/ in general is just retarded.

>> No.15940366

Who would be a good litmus then?

>> No.15940474

>>15940366
probably nietzsche; if they like him and haven't read him, that's a pseud shibboleth.

>> No.15940565
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>"In the West, the conception of the sacred and the transcendent in popular or regressive forms, became predominant and all but exclusive..."

>"...The conclusion to be drawn from all of this is that a group of concepts considered in the Christian West as essential and indispensable for any "true" religion -- the personal god of theism, the moral law with the sanction of heaven and hell, the limited conception of a providential order and a "moral and rational" finalism of the world, faith resting on a largely emotional, sentimental, and subintellectual basis .. all of these are foreign to a metaphysical vision of existence such as is well attested in the world of Tradition. The God who has been attacked is God conceived as the center of gravity of all this merely religious system. But in fact this may open the horizon of a new essentiality for those who accept as a trial of their strength -- one might even say, of their faith in the higher sense -- all the dissolving processes brought about by the direction that civilization has taken in recent times. The "moral skin" falls off a God who has finished up as opium of the people, or as the counterpart of the petty morality that the bourgeois world substitutes for the greater morality. But the essential core, represented by metaphysical teachings such as those just mentioned, remains inviolate for those who can percieve and live them, remains inaccessible to all those nihilistic processes, and withstands any dissolution."