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Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution
• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age
• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation
The organizations and institutions that, in a tradi ...more
• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age
• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation
The organizations and institutions that, in a tradi ...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
September 8th 2003
by Inner Traditions
(first published 1st 1961)
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Who is Julius Evola? What does he want? Why does he matter? Do Fascists shit in the woods?
Ride the Tiger starts with some standard criticisms of the Liberal-Democratic-Capitalist-Constitutional world, as well as the Materialist-Marxist-Soviet-COMINTERN world, again noting their focus on material conditions while ignoring 'spiritual' or mental processes. He briefly discusses a few contemporary philosophers in this early stage of analysis. Most of his time is spent wrestling with Nietzsche, his im ...more
Ride the Tiger starts with some standard criticisms of the Liberal-Democratic-Capitalist-Constitutional world, as well as the Materialist-Marxist-Soviet-COMINTERN world, again noting their focus on material conditions while ignoring 'spiritual' or mental processes. He briefly discusses a few contemporary philosophers in this early stage of analysis. Most of his time is spent wrestling with Nietzsche, his im ...more
Julius Evola's analysis and diagnosis of the modern world in "Ride The Tiger" is very precise (unfortunately) to say the least.
"Riding the Tiger" in modern times (some decades after the book was written) is no doubt a grand challenge only for those few unafraid to confront modern degeneracy head-on. As Nietzsche wrote in probably his most popular quote,"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
But as a drunken and belligerent biker once told me, "if you mess with the bull, you get the horns."
A ...more
"Riding the Tiger" in modern times (some decades after the book was written) is no doubt a grand challenge only for those few unafraid to confront modern degeneracy head-on. As Nietzsche wrote in probably his most popular quote,"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
But as a drunken and belligerent biker once told me, "if you mess with the bull, you get the horns."
A ...more
Evola didn't speak to modern man. What he calls aristocrats of the soul is a man of previous eras living today. Previous epochs!
The view of the archaic man is what aristocracy has always manifested. From such a vantage point, our current era maybe characterized as a waste land, void of values, of beauty, of taste and of intelligence. This is obvious wherever we turn our attention: in architecture and fine arts, in cheap, mass-manufactured products, in what music has become and last but not leas ...more
The view of the archaic man is what aristocracy has always manifested. From such a vantage point, our current era maybe characterized as a waste land, void of values, of beauty, of taste and of intelligence. This is obvious wherever we turn our attention: in architecture and fine arts, in cheap, mass-manufactured products, in what music has become and last but not leas ...more
A breath of fresh air and a very interesting for those who agree with Evola. The critiques of Sartre, Nietzsche and Heidegger are well-composed and would be of interest for general philosophy readers.
At first I was bored by Evola's elaborate reflections on the necessity to turn to transcendence in one's existence, but the book got better and better as the author performed a great analysis of modern philosophy until it finally turned brilliant with his criticism of human culture and society. I may not agree with everything Evola wrote, but many of his thoughts concerning the state of modern civilisation are indeed striking and have to be taken into consideration.
A feckless, fascist, pile of dreck.
This book is a lifeline and a must read for anyone who doesn't feel at home in the materialistic modern age in that it is a thought provoking analysis of what the individual can do to thrive in the age of dissolution. The book elucidates practical methods for living out Evolas traditionalist and perennial worldview in a world that is apathetic towards anything but nihilistic hedonism. The philosophical ideas and schools brought up by Evola would be a challenge for anyone not acquainted with them
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I'm at about 70%, and so far he mostly seems to be very busy pointing out how wrong other people are. I also feel he simplifies a lot of things and maybe doesn't understand them as well as he likes to imagine. While I found a lot of original and interesting ideas in this book so far, I do also feel...well. This entire book so far seems to be about how amazing he and people who are like him are and why. Though there are some interesting points he also loses a lot of credit by over simplifying all
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Nonsense. Annoying, how often he writes of his having written about something, as in passages that go, "I have already written of this [and he has just written about it on the last page]," over and over and over. It's stimulating to have to read carefully. It's also great to reap the benefits of someone with greater knowledge than oneself. But Evola makes his positive assertions in terms of negative statements, effectively saying, "What is real is beyond that which is real, what is actual is not
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Sep 18, 2013
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«Al luogo delle unità tradizionali – dei corpi particolari, degli ordini, delle caste o classi funzionali, delle corporazioni – membrature a cui il singolo si sentiva legato in base ad un principio superindividuale che ne informava l’intera vita dandole un significato e un orientamento specifico, oggi si hanno associazioni determinate unicamente dall’interesse materiale degli individui, che solo su questa base si uniscono: sindacati, organizzazioni di categoria, partiti. Lo stato informe dei pop
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Evola reasons by taking one thing in one hand, another thing in the other hand, and stopping. It's enough to establish his aesthetics, which are not entirely bad, but there is no thought here, because there is no motion. Nothing ever precedes from anything else. It follows that Evola is an aesthete and not a philosopher, making him principally a well developed dilettante. However, he does seem to have a decent grasp of occult and mythological concepts. Half-decent.
Highly disapinting. The title, "A Survival Manual for Aristocrats of the Soul," is nothing more than a stupid misnomer. Nothing but reactionary drivel with Evola raging against Nietzche, Heidigger, and any other intellectual that didn't get his whole TRADITION schtick. Which is a real shame because, Revolt Against the Modern World is fucking great. Philosophy-tards might like it, anyone else more grounded in reality, like myself, should steer clear of this boringass work and just stick with Revo
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If you are like me you have long since seen the disturbing parallels between the far right and the new age/hippie movement. If you want to see an actual work of writing which originally brought these things together as a whole in the first place here you go. You even get that oh-so-wonderful postmodernist word salad style of non-writing as part of the presentation.
So cross L Ron Hubbard, Derrida, and David Duke and that's basically what you get here. Whole Foods with soundtrack by Von Thornstahl ...more
So cross L Ron Hubbard, Derrida, and David Duke and that's basically what you get here. Whole Foods with soundtrack by Von Thornstahl ...more
Non c'è niente di più proficuo di leggere un autore con vedute diametralmente opposte alle proprie.
Evola, esponente della destra tradizionalista, ma non di quella ignorante e populista (alla Salvini, per intenderci) ma di quella ancorata ai grandi Miti della Tradizione, è uno di quegli autori con cui amo confrontarmi.
Non condivido gran parte della sue idee e delle sue posizioni, ma è senza dubbio una lettura culturalmente appagante
Evola, esponente della destra tradizionalista, ma non di quella ignorante e populista (alla Salvini, per intenderci) ma di quella ancorata ai grandi Miti della Tradizione, è uno di quegli autori con cui amo confrontarmi.
Non condivido gran parte della sue idee e delle sue posizioni, ma è senza dubbio una lettura culturalmente appagante
A somewhat difficult, but very informative read. I really enjoyed Evola's thoughts and opinions and although this book was written in the 1960's I felt as though he was speaking about the current status of the western world.
Entre el individualismo y la iluminación, envestido con la armadura de la Tradición, así luce el "aristócrata del espíritu" al que se refiere el título. Algún día lo publicaremos en español. Fundamental.
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Julius Evola, also known as Baron Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, was an Italian philosopher, esotericist, occultist, author, artist, poet, political activist, soldier and most significantly described as a Radical Traditionalist.
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