Thoughts?
Thoughts?
Nolan Morales
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Carter Gomez
Seems like a meme.
I haven't read it though and my grasp of what the thing is even about is very loose
Samuel Roberts
On my list to read
William Gonzalez
WHAT ABOUT THIS
Ian Cooper
just be catholic desu
Tyler Adams
doesnt work tbfam
Oliver Jenkins
the table of contents makes it seem bretty interesting
Levi Lopez
The tiger
yes
YES
Levi Morales
I found Evola's "solution" for the nihilism of contemporary Western life to be abstract and protean. This was precisely his point, however, to leave the content of an individual's law empty, only for them to uncover.
With that said, his readings of Nietzsche are very, very interesting; with regard to Western philosophy, he establishes some foundation to approach Nietzsche's aesthetic as thoroughly phenomenological (Husserlian), if his naturalism and "ubermensch" are properly sublimated. His critique of Nietzsche is effectively that any will to power is only one of many expressions of the vital life, and in the parameters of a localized, "self"-overcoming, it has a thoroughly transcendent character; rather, it must, lest it devolve into self-immolation in the form of gross, mordant "asceticism."
The general thesis is one of a disillusioned, post-war reactionary who sees no rectification of the West at all, but sees some hopeful utility in turning lifeless and nihilistic contemporary society into a holy war for the self. The impersonal, collective machinery, the crowded corridors of consumerist malls and the radical isolation one feels when confronted with the acerbic, sonic waves of aeroplane engines, television, bovine marches of automobiles, etc. can, by provoking a sense of nomadic distance, spectrality, and inner trauma, fertilize the individual disposition for an awakening (much more than any nature-gazing may have in the epochs of old).
The book is essentially egoistic. If one is wanting a manual for facilitating the resolution or birth of a new order of tradition, it isn't the book of his to approach. However, if one already feels detached from all around him, wandering in a foreign land that would make ascetics of the past tremble at its debasing, materializing and elementally "provocative" ruining; someone who sees past the solutions of marginal politics of always a collective nature, the weak existentialism of the bourgeoisie, the Weberian cult of efficiency and faux-authority, managerial madness, of contemporary institutions: this person will find the book helpful for clearly delineating what is to be overcome, namely, oneself.
Hunter Johnson
Having not yet read any Evola, in reading about his books, Ride The Tiger just seems like the most inapplicable of the three comprising the main "Evola Triad" (Revolt Against The Modern World, Men Among The Ruins). Can anybody clarify?