Against Nihilism: Julius Evola’s “Traditionalist” Critique of Modernity
From the desk of Thomas F. Bertonneau on Mon, 2010-03-29 18:35With the likes of Oswald Spengler, whose Decline he translated for an Italian readership, and Jose Ortega y Gasset, Julius Evola (1898 – 1974) stands as one of the notably incisive mid-Twentieth Century critics of modernity. Like Spengler and Ortega, Evola understood himself to owe a formative debt to Friedrich Nietzsche, but more forcefully than Spengler or Ortega, Evola saw the limitations – the contradictions and inconsistencies – in Nietzsche’s thinking.
Monday 29 March 2010
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