Tag: Julius Evola

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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. (more…)

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Jonathan Bowden
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London: The Palingenesis Project, 2016

To commemorate the late Jonathan Bowden on what would have been his 61st birthday, Greg Johnson provided a thoughtful tribute essay, accompanied by a comprehensive aggregation of links to articles, speech transcripts, reviews, and more. Although so many of us never had the privilege of meeting him or attending his speeches in person, Bowden nonetheless remains an inspiration. (more…)

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Traduje se, že v jisté neevropské zemi, ovšem se starobylou civilizací, přišla jedna americká společnost, rozladěná nedostatečnou pílí místních dělníků, s nápadem zavést účinnou pobídku k vyššímu pracovnímu nasazení: (more…)

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In 1897, Robert Lewis Dabney prophesied the triumph of women’s suffrage based on his estimate of the history and character of the only force opposed to it, Northern conservatism:

This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. (more…)

Richard Mikuláš hrabě Coudenhove-Kalergi

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Historická fakta obvykle bývají podstatně paradoxnější a zajímavější, než následně o nich vytvořené mýty. Při čtení vynikající sbírky esejí Julia Evoly jsem narazil na fascinující baronův rozhovor s jiným aristokratem a dlouholetým propagátorem „evropského federalismu“, hrabětem Richardem von Coudenhove-Kalergi. (more…)

Kniha Ernsta Jüngera Der Gordische Knoten poprvé vyšla ve Frankfurtu nad Mohanem v roce 1953

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Jméno Ernsta Jüngera si postupně získává takřka celoevropskou proslulost. Význam tohoto spisovatele coby filozofa se však pojí především s raným obdobím jeho života i tvorby. Tento veterán 1. světové války se po jejím skončení etabloval jako mluvčí generace, už ve své době označované za generaci „vyhořelou“. Jeho ideje nemají původ v abstraktních, za psacím stolem spřádaných spekulací, ale v prožité hrdinské zkušenosti, odkud postupně dospěly až k problému smyslu lidské bytosti ve věku nihilismu a všemocné techniky. Jeho ústředními pojmy jsou „heroický realismus“ a etika „absolutní osoby“. (more…)

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A previously unpublished exchange of letters between the Swiss neo-fascist activist Gaston-Armand Amaudruz and Julius Evola from 1958 was recently discovered among the former’s papers (scans of the original letters can be found here). Mr. Amaudruz was then part of the leadership of the New European Order (NEO), a pan-European neo-fascist movement that had been established in 1951. (more…)

Gaston-Armand Amaudruz

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We are pleased to present scans of a previously unpublished exchange of letters between the Swiss neo-fascist activist Gaston-Armand Amaudruz and Julius Evola that were discovered among the former’s papers. The letters are dated from 1958 and are in French. If anyone with a knowledge of French is interested in volunteering to transcribe the letters, please contact us here. And please do not start work until you have heard from us, to avoid unnecessary duplication. (more…)

Aurobindo Ghosh, 1872–1950

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De 1914 à 1916, le périodique Arya [en sanskrit signifie noble] — imprimé à Pondichéry en un nombre limité d’exemplaires et maintenant quasiment introuvable — publia une série d’essais de Srî Aurobindo sur le secret du Véda. Ces essais ont été réédités en un volume sous le même titre, Le secret du Véda (Cahiers du Sud, 1954) [réédité par Fayard en 1975]. (more…)

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Part 4 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

5. Critique of Magical Idealism (Continued)

(b) How strong is Evola’s case for idealism?

I noted earlier that Evola sums up his idealism using Berkeley’s famous expression esse est percipi (to be is to be perceived). (more…)

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Part 3 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here, Part 4 here)

5. Critique of Magical Idealism

In this concluding section, I will discuss three major difficulties with magical idealism: (more…)

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Part 2 of 4 (Part 1 here, Part 3 here)

4. The Principles of Magical Idealism

Evola’s critique of transcendental idealism, which we examined in the last installment, is insightful and interesting — though grand choruses of academic voices would be raised against every step of it, insisting that Evola has misunderstood idealism. (more…)