Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola was born on May 19, 1898 in Rome. Along with René Guénon, Evola is one of the writers who has most influenced the metapolitical outlook and project of Counter-Currents, which is reflected in the fact that Evola is one of the most-tagged writers on this website. In commemoration of his birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following resources.
Counter-Currents has published the following writings of Evola’s:
- “Power and Infantilism”
- “Subliminal Influences”
- “The Love of the Distant”
- “The Tarantula’s Bite”
- “Faces and Mud”
- “Dionysus and the Left-Hand Path”
- “The Decay of Words,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- “The Enjoyment of Vulgarity”
- “The Jewish Question in the Spiritual World” (Spanish translation here)
- “Negrified America”
- “Mussolini and Racism,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
- “Racism and Anti-Semitism”
- “The Third Sex and Democracy”
- “The Mystique of Race in Ancient Rome”
- “Orientations” (Spanish translation here)
- “Race and the Myth of the Origins of Rome”
- “The Meaning and Function of Monarchy”
- “Races of the Soul and Spirit in Judaism”
- “Aspects of Racial Doctrine”
- “Races of the Spirit”
- “Racialism as Anti-Universalism”
- “The Tragedy of the Romanian ‘Iron Guard’”
- “The Japanese Hara Theory and its Relations to East and West,” Part 1, Part 2
- “The Svadharma Doctrine and Existentialism”
- “Oriental and Ancient Mediterranean Erotic Symbolism”
- “Spiritual Virility in Buddhism”
- “On the Problem of the Meeting of Religions in East and West”
- “Zen and the West”
- “The Right to One’s Own Life in East and West”
- “Historiography of the Right”
- “The ‘Mysteries of Woman’ in East and West,” Part 1 and Part 2
- “Yoga, Immortality, and Freedom”
- “Vedanta, Meister Eckhart, Schelling”
- “The Liberating Influences of the Traditional East”
- “On the Subterranean History of Rome”
- “Initiatic Centers and History”
- “The Tools of the Occult War”
- “The Concept of Initiation”
- “To be of the Right”
- “Nietzsche for Today” (in Czech, in Portuguese)
- “The Spirit of Roman Civilization”
- “Léon de Poncins’ The Occult War”
- “Christmas and the Winter Solstice”
- “Against the Neo-Pagans”
- “Mr. Gurdjieff” (in Czech)
- “American ‘Civilization’”
- “Sol Invictus: Encounters Between East and West in the Ancient World”
- “Youth, Beats, and Right-Wing Anarchists,” Part 1 and Part 2
- “Baron von Ungern-Sternberg” (in Czech)
- “Nihilism and the Meaning of Life in Nietzsche”
- “The Overcoming of the Superman”
- “Evola on the Egyptian and Tibetan Books of the Dead”
- “Juan Donoso Cortés”
- “René Guénon: East and West”
- “Evola on Zen and Everyday Life”
- “Evola on Aurobindo’s Secret of the Veda”
- “What is Spanish Falangism?”
- “The Relationship Between Judaism and Freemasonry”
- “What Tantrism Means to Modern Western Civilization”
- “On the Secret of Degeneration”
- “Aleister Crowley”
- “Race and War”
- “East and West: The Gordian Knot: Ernst Jünger’s Der gordische Knoten”
The following articles deal exclusively or principally with Evola or employ him as the main frame of reference:
- Michael Bell, “Julius Evola’s Concept of Race: A Racism of Three Degrees” (Spanish translation here)
- Alain de Benoist, “Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power”
- Thomas F. Bertonneau, “Against Nihilism: Julius Evola’s ‘Traditionalist’ Critique of Modernity”
- Jonathan Bowden, “Paganism and Christianity, Nietzsche and Evola”
- Jonathan Bowden, “Julius Evola: The World’s Most Right-Wing Thinker”
- Amanda Bradley, “Absolute Woman: A Clarification of Evola’s Thoughts on Women” (in Portuguese)
- Amanda Bradley, “Nazi Fashion Wars: The Evolian Revolt Against Aphroditism in the Third Reich,” Part 1 and Part 2 (in French)
- F. Roger Devlin, “Fascism as Anti-Modernism: Julius Evola’s Fascism Viewed from the Right”
- F. Roger Devlin, “National Socialism as Anti-Modernism? Evola’s Notes on the Third Reich”
- Derek Hawthorne, Review of Evola’s The Metaphysics of War
- Derek Hawthorne, “North Face: The Return of the German Mountain Film”
- Derek Hawthorne, “The Holy Mountain,” Part 1, Part 2
- Derek Hawthorne, “The White Hell of Pitz Palü,” Part 2
- Derek Hawthorne, “Storm over Mont Blanc,” Part 1
- Alexander Jacob, “The Bourgeoisie, Protestantism, and The Protocols: The Anti-Democratic Thought of Erik, Ritter von Kuehnelt-Leddihn and Barone Giulio Cesare Evola”
- Greg Johnson, “Metapolitics and Occult Warfare,” Part 1, Part 2, Part 4 (Translations: Estonian, French, Polish)
- Greg Johnson, “Notes on Heidegger and Evola” (Spanish translation here)
- Greg Johnson, Review of A Handbook of Traditional Living (Spanish translation here)
- Greg Johnson, Review of Codreanu’s The Prison Notes (Translations: Slovak, Spanish)
- James J. O’Meara, “The Eldritch Evola” (on Evola and Lovecraft)
- James J. O’Meara, “Evola on Wheels: Psychomania as Hermetic Initiation”
- Michael O’Meara, “Evola’s Anti-Semitism” (Czech translation here)
- Michael O’Meara, “Le primordial et l’eternel : La Tradition dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger et de Julius Evola”
- Matt Parrott, “Freemasonry and the Occult War”
- Renato del Ponte, “My Memories of Julius Evola”
- Robert Steuckers, “Evola and Spengler” (in Czech)
For those wishing to read Evola’s books, I would suggest three different starting points. For those who want to jump in at the deep end, begin with Evola’s magnum opus, Revolt Against the Modern World. For those who want to wade in, I recommend starting with one of Evola’s slimmest, most beautiful, and most seductive works, Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest. For those who prefer to begin with an overview of Evola’s life and works, I recommend his The Path of Cinnabar: An Intellectual Autobiography. I recommend the following websites on Evola:
- Fondazione Julius Evola, http://www.fondazionejuliusevola.it/
- Evola As He Is: http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/
Finally, as a treat, here is a video of the elderly Evola being interviewed in French on Dadaism.
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4 comments
I have done graduate work in Aquinas and Heidegger so I am no stranger to reading with effort, but I have never come away from reading Evola with anything that stayed in my head. All I can think of is “spiritual aristocracy and Tradition” and I don’t know what he means. Same is true when people try to explain Evola. It just doesn’t take. Maybe I’m just not aristocratic enough…
“It just doesn’t take. Maybe I’m just not aristocratic enough…”
If Evola was right, your potential is a given, but YOU decide if you will actualize some measure of the heroic archetype.
This is an unusual reaction. Evola is full of startling and memorable ideas: one which I found particularly noteworthy just in the last few minutes of reading was his suggestion that young ladies who wear blue jeans should be sent to concentration camps. Oh, you meant *sane* ideas? Yeah, I’m drawing a blank.
The far right is having a growth moment right now, and so there’s a scramble to define and fill the roles which come up when you suddenly go from a fractious collection of marginal subcultures to a viable political movement. One problem is that there is no single ideology or organization which speaks for the far right, just a lot of people who agree (in a general sense) on issues of immigration and identity, and who share a contempt for a decadent and corrupt ruling class. In a rush, we reach for what is at hand: the totems which gave comfort in those long years in the wilderness. Or, overwhelmed with ressentiment, we ape the forms of the enemy, and become self-satisfied, obscurantist, aesthetic, orientalist, and vulgarly transgressive. Evola seems to combine these two faults in a single unappealing package (and one, I now see after watching the videos above, with sublimely bad teeth).
I’m obviously not a fan; our host is. Oh well. I think the counter-currents project is brave and worthwhile, even if not every aspect of it necessarily deserves indulgence. The ruling class is being truly threatened for the first time in my lifetime, and the future seems potentially far freer and more hopeful than the present. Essentially the entirety of western thought has been abolished from elite opinion for various sins against “equality” (if you don’t believe me, read a modern college syllabus some time, or talk to ), which leaves a lot of potential intellectual allies – all of them, by my count. A lot of them make a lot more sense, in the American context at least, than Evola, and I think even his admirers would agree with that. Intellectually, tempermentally, and – perhaps most importantly – orthidontically.
You should really add this full interview of Evola to the article.
https://youtu.be/QiCtdi5nCoA
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