Julius Evola & Radical Traditionalism

[Jamt]

By E. Christian Kopff,

The ex-wife of a respected free market economist once remarked to me, “Yale used to say that conservatives were just old-fashioned liberals.” People who think this will be flabbergasted by Julius Evola. Like Georges Sorel, Oswald Spengler, Whittaker Chambers, and Régis Debray, Evola insisted that liberals and communists share basic principles. For Evola, politics is an expression of principles, and he never tires of repeating his own.
• The transcendent is real.
• Man’s knowledge of his relationship to transcendence has been handed down from the beginning of human culture. This is Tradition with a capital T.
• Human beings are tri-partite: body, soul, and spirit and it is wrong to isolate the physical or intellectual part.
• State and society are hierarchical and the clearer the hierarchy, the healthier the society.
• The worst traits of the modern world are its denial of transcendence, its reductionist vision of man, and its egalitarianism.
The rest at Alternative Right, http://www.alternativeright.com/main...raditionalism/

[Antonine]

I recommend his predecessor Rene Guénon. Guénon's works are very important for understanding the Traditionalist worldview, especially "Crisis of the Modern World", "East and West", and "Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power."

Crisis of the Modern World:
http://books.google.com/books?id=N6g...age&q=&f=false

Ideas pondered in "Crises of the Modern World":
http://www.livingislam.org/cmw-frd.html

http://www.religioperennis.org/docum...gs/RGuenon.pdf
http://www.worldwisdom.com/public/au...ne-Guenon.aspx

[Imperivm]

I'm reading the Doctrine of Awakening at the moment by Evola, it's a bit heavy but essential for my learning.