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| '''Julius Evola''', aka ''Giulio Evola'' or ''Baron Giulio'' (], ]-], ]), was a controversial ] ], who wrote prolifically on matters political, philosophical, historical, and religious from a ] point of view. | |||
| Born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola in ] to a noble ] family. He fought in ] as an ] officer. Attracted to the ], Evola became a ] painter and poet & was briefly a member of ]'s ] movement but he renounced art and delved deep into ] and ] studies. | |||
| It is hard to speak definitively about his politics. Some claim that his exaltation of a ] may have influenced ] and/or ] in a roundabout way. Others point out that he rejected ] philosophically and in general terms. Evola sought to influence Fascism in the direction of archaic ethnic ]; away from the ] ], the ], and the masses. | |||
| Evola believed in a race of ] "]" people from the ] who had a crucial hand in the founding of ]. | |||
| Evola was influenced by ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ]. | |||
| Toward the end of ], Evola was working for the ] researching the ] archive in ]. He became ] from the waist down (and remained so throughout his life) after trying to defend ] at the barricades from the encroaching ] in ] (March/April). According to ] he was shot in the "third ]". | |||
| In ] Evola was arrested briefly on charges of attempting to ]. | |||
| Evola died on ], ] in Rome; his ashes were deposited in hole cut in a glacier on ]. | |||
| Evola has come to have a growing influence in both the occult and political realms. In the later, he has specifically influenced ], ], the ], ], and the ]. ] referred to him as "our ] - only better" | |||
| ==Books== | |||
| ===Early=== | |||
| *''Arte Astratta'' (an work on abstract art) | |||
| *''Teoria Dell'Individuo Assoluto'' (a ] work borne out of a mental and spiritual breakdown) | |||
| *''Imperialismo pagano'' (a polemical work urging the ] regime to conduct an ], ] revolution, 1928) | |||
| ===Significant=== | |||
| *''La Tradidizione Ermetica'', (]) ('']'' trans. ] ISBN 0892814519) | |||
| *''Rivolta Contro il Mondo Moderno'', (]) ('']'' trans. ], ISBN 089281506X) | |||
| *''The Mystery of the Grail, Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit'' ISBN 0892815736 | |||
| *''Sintesi di Dottrina Della Razza'', (]) | |||
| *''Yoga della potenza'' ('']: ], Shakti, and the Secret Way'' trans. ] ISBN 0892813687) | |||
| *''La dottrina del risveglio'' (]) ('']'' trans. ] ISBN 0892815531) | |||
| *''Meditations on the Peaks: The Metaphysics of Mountain Climbing'' ISBN 0892816570 | |||
| *''Gli Uomini e le Rovine'' ('']'' trans. ], ISBN 0892819057) | |||
| *''Orientamenti'' | |||
| *''Metafisica del Sesso'' ('']'' trans. ] ISBN 0892813156) | |||
| *''Cavalcare la Tigre'' ('']'' trans. ] ISBN 0892811250) | |||
| *''Path of Enlightenment According to the Mithraic Mysteries'' ISBN 1558182284 | |||
| *''RENE GUENON: A Teacher for Modern Times'' ISBN 1558182292 | |||
| *''Zen: The Religion of the Samurai'' ISBN 1558183299 | |||
| *''TAOISM: The Magic, the Mysticism'' ISBN 1558182276 | |||
| == References == | |||
| * "Julius Evola and the Ideological Origins of the Radical Right in Contemporary Italy" by Richard H. Drake in ''Aspects of Political Violence'' | |||
| * "Julius Evola, Radical Fascism and the Lateran Accords" by Richard H. Drake in ''The Catholic Historical Review'' 74 (1988): 403-19 | |||
| * ''Social Research'', 48, Spring 1981: 45-83 | |||
| * ''Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity'' by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 2001, ISBN 0814731554 | |||
| * ''Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890'' edited by Philip Rees, 1991, ISBN 0130893013 | |||
| * ''Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival'' by Joscelyn Godwin, 1996, ISBN 0932813356 | |||
| * ''Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the postwar fascist international'' by Kevin Coogan, Autonomedia, Brooklyn, NY 1998 ISBN 1570270392 | |||
| ==Other revolutionary minded Italians of the inter-war period== | |||
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| ==External links== | |||
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