Remembering Julius Evola:
May 19, 1898–June 11, 1974

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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: 

Book:

• East & West: Comparative Studies in Pursuit of Tradition, ed. Greg Johnson and Collin Cleary

Articles:

• “The Mirror of the Jewish Soul: Otto Weininger on the Jewish Question”
• “Judaism in the Ancient World”
• “The SS, Guard & Order of the Revolution of the Swastika”
• “A ‘Castle of the Order’”
• “The ‘Napolas’” (in Czech)
• “Israel: Its Past, Its Future”
• “Biological Youth & Political Youth”
• “The Hegemony of the White Races”
• “Rene Guénon & Integral Traditionalism”
• “Intelligent Stupidity”
• “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)
• Collin Cleary, “What is Odinism?, Part IV: Odinism as an Esoteric Path”
• Collin Cleary, “Evola’s Nietzschean Ethics: A Code of Conduct for the Higher Man in Kali Yuga”
• 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, “Battle of the Magicians: Baron Evola between the Dancer & the Druid”
• James J. O’Meara, “The Eldritch Evola” (on Evola and Lovecraft)
• James J. O’Meara, “Evola on Wheels: Psychomania as Hermetic Initiation”
• James J. O’Meara, “Two Orders, Same Man: Evola, Hesse,” Part 1, Part 2
• 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”
• John Morgan, “What Would Evola Do?”
• Matt Parrott, “Freemasonry and the Occult War”
• Renato del Ponte, “My Memories of Julius Evola”
• J. J. Przybylski, “Grey December Zeitgeist:Shades of Spengler, Evola, Nietzsche, & Bukowski”
• Robert Steuckers, “Evola and Spengler” (in Czech)
• Gianfranco de Turris, “Julius Evola: A Philosopher at War”

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 website on Evola:

• Fondazione Julius Evola, http://www.fondazionejuliusevola.it/

Finally, as a treat, here is a video of the elderly Evola being interviewed with English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiCtdi5nCoA