Giulio Evola
Giulio Evola aka.
Julius Evola or
Baron Giulio (
1898,
1974) was an extremely controversial
Italian esotericist, who started as an abstract artist but later did a total reversal of his earlier
modernist and
futurist views and delved deep into occult traditions including an idiosyncratic form of sex magic and a deep belief in a race of "nordic" people from the
North Pole who had a crucial hand in the destruction of
Atlantis.
It is hard to speak definitively about his political views if any or especially his aims. Some claim that his exaltation of a "warrior caste" may have influenced fascism and/or nazism in a roundabout way. Others point out that he rejected nationalism philosophically and in general terms.
Books
Early
- Arte Astratta (an work on abstract art)
- Teoria Dell'Individuo Assoluto (a Nietzschean work borne out of a mental and sprititual breakdown)
Significant
- La Tradidizione Ermetica, (1931)
- Rivolta Contro il Mondo Moderno, (1934)
- Sintesi di Dottrina Della Razza, (1940)
- Gli Uomini e le Rovine,([?])
- Orientamenti,([?])
- Metafisica del Sesso([?])
- Cavalcare la Tigre