Revolt Against the Modern World, Julius Evola
Revolt Against the Modern World, Julius Evola
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Revolt Against the Modern World
Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga

Author: Julius Evola

Narrator: Michael Moynihan

Unabridged: 17 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/04/2022


Synopsis

With unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world. As a gadfly, Evola spares no one and nothing in his survey of what we have lost and where we are headed. At turns prophetic and provocative, Revolt against the Modern World outlines a profound metaphysics of history and demonstrates how and why we have lost contact with the transcendent dimension of being.

The revolt advocated by Evola does not resemble the familiar protests of either liberals or conservatives. His criticisms are not limited to exposing the mindless nature of consumerism, the march of progress, the rise of technocracy, or the dominance of unalloyed individualism, although these and other subjects come under his scrutiny. Rather, he attempts to trace in space and time the remote causes and processes that have exercised corrosive influence on what he considers to be the higher values, ideals, beliefs, and codes of conduct--the world of Tradition--that are at the foundation of Western civilization and described in the myths and sacred literature of the Indo‑Europeans. Agreeing with the Hindu philosophers that history is the movement of huge cycles and that we are now in the Kali Yuga, the age of dissolution and decadence, Evola finds revolt to be the only logical response for those who oppose the materialism and ritualized meaninglessness of life in the twentieth century.

Through a sweeping study of the structures, myths, beliefs, and spiritual traditions of the major Western civilizations, the author compares the characteristics of the modern world with those of traditional societies. The domains explored include politics, law, the rise and fall of empires, the history of the Church, the doctrine of the two natures, life and death, social institutions and the caste system, the limits of racial theories, capitalism and communism, relations between the sexes, and the meaning of warriorhood. At every turn Evola challenges the reader’s most cherished assumptions about fundamental aspects of modern life.

A controversial scholar, philosopher, and social thinker, JULIUS EVOLA (1898-1974) has only recently become known to more than a handful of English‑speaking readers. An authority on the world’s esoteric traditions, Evola wrote extensively on ancient civilizations and the world of Tradition in both East and West. Other books by Evola published by Inner Traditions include Eros and the Mysteries of Love, The Yoga of Power, The Hermetic Tradition, and The Doctrine of Awakening.

About Julius Evola

A controversial philosopher and critic of modern Western civilization, Julius Evola (1898-1974) wrote widely on Eastern religions, alchemy, sexuality, politics, and mythology. Inner Traditions has published his Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex, The Yoga of Power, The Hermetic Tradition, Revolt Against the Modern World, The Mystery of the Grail and Ride The Tiger.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on July 10, 2014

Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola is a book so breathtaking, so fresh and magisterial that I may be incapable of reading anything for the remainder of the year. I found it rich. Every word Evola writes here speaks to something that goes beyond ordinary life, something more than a condi......more

Goodreads review by The Esoteric on June 16, 2020

This work shows how to be as salmon swimming counterstream the steeply descending and culturally dissolutive flow this Kali Yuga age - we are now five thousand years into - has tempestuously created (times of incarnations it has allowed in who are violent, treacherous, undisciplined, cold and greedy......more

Goodreads review by Old Dog on January 07, 2023

***3/4 In some ways this book is deserving of 5 stars, but when Evola is wrong he is really wrong. Thus the subtracting of 1 and 1/4 stars. Evola was a mad-man, but in a good way. Well, most of the time. At the very least he was extremely well read, and his constant references alone made the reading e......more

Goodreads review by Scriptor Ignotus on February 21, 2015

Julius Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World is the manifesto of traditionalism, and one of the most popular texts among today's "alternative right". Evola was an esotericist; his spiritual proclivities were toward a path of inner transformation and self-mastery. Everything flows from this interna......more

Goodreads review by noblethumos on March 27, 2023

"Revolt Against the Modern World" is a book by Italian philosopher Julius Evola, first published in 1934. The book presents Evola's critique of modernity and his vision of a traditional, spiritual, and aristocratic society. Evola argues that modern society has lost its connection to the transcendent......more


Quotes

"Revolt Against the Modern World is destined to remain an essential work and frame-of-reference for anyone seriously involved in native European spirituality."

"Evola does not write in abstract philosophical language but in lively prose, filled with fascinating and concrete details. Given a basic grounding in history and culture, one can dip into the book anywhere and find new twists and reinterpretations. Such an encounter with a totally original mind is a rarity in these days of bland consensus, and a thrilling one whether one agrees with Evola or not."