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Julius Evola’s last explication of his thoughts on modernity, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution.
The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilisation and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognises as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world. Everything that has come to predominate in the modern world is the direct antithesis of the world of Tradition, in which a society is ruled by principles that transcend the merely human and transitory.
Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our dissolute age examined in the light of the inner teachings of indestructible Tradition. Evola identifies the type of human capable of 'riding the tiger,' who may transform destructive processes into inner liberation. He offers hope for those who wish to re-embrace Tradition.
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| Author | Evola, Julius |
|---|---|
| Full Title | Ride the Tiger: A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Publisher | Inner Traditions |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 0892811250 |
| Language | English |
| Short Description | This is Evola's final summation of his major ideas. Its subtitle is 'A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul'. It gives some pointers as to how men of a higher disposition (whom Evola calls the 'aristocrats of the soul') can 'remain standing' in this age of dissolution. |
| Praise | 'Evola looks beyond man-made systems to the eternal principles in creation and human society. The truth, as he sees it, is so totally at odds with the present way of thinking that is shocks the modern mind.' - John Michell, author of The New View Over Atlantis . 'Evola is one of the most interesting minds of the [world] war generation.' - Mircea Eliade, author of The Sacred and the Profane. |
| Table of Contents | Part 1: Orientations 1. The Modern World and Traditional Man 2. The End of a Cycle--'Ride the Tiger' Part 2: In the World Where God Is Dead 3. European Nihilism--The Dissolution of Morals 4. >From the Precursors of Nihilism to the 'Lost Youth' and the Protest Movement 5. Disguises of European Nihilism--The Socioeconomic Myth and the Protest Movement 6. Active Nihilism--Nietzsche 7. 'Being Oneself' 8. The Transcendent Dimension--'Life' and 'More Than Life' 9. Beyond Theism and Atheism 10. Invulnerability--Apollo and Dionysus 11. Acting without Desire--The Causal Law Part 3: The Dead End of Existentialism 12. Being and Inauthentic Existence 13. Sartre: Prisoner without Walls 14. Existence, 'A Project Flung into the World' 15. Heidegger: 'Retreating Forwards' and 'Being-for-Death'--Collapse of Existentialism Part 4: Dissolution of the Individual 16. The Dual Aspect of Anonymity 17. Destructions and Liberations in the New Realism 18. The 'Animal Ideal'--The Sentiment of Nature Part 5: Dissolution of Consciousness and Relativism 19. The Procedures of Modern Science 20. Covering up Nature--Phenomenology Part 6: The Realm of Art--From 'Physical' Music to the Drug Regime 21. The Sickness of European Culture 22. Dissolution in Modern Art 23. Modern Music and Jazz 24. Excursus on Drugs Part 7: Dissolution in the Social Realm 25. States and Parties--Apoliteia 26. Society--The Crisis of Patriotic Feeling 27. Marriage and the Family 28. Relations between the Sexes Part 8: The Spiritual Problem 29. The 'Second Religiosity' 30. Death--The Right over Life Notes Index |
| About the Author | Julius Evola (1898 -1974), Italian traditionalist, metaphysician, social thinker and activist. Evola is an authority on the world's esoteric traditions and one of the greatest critics of modernity. He wrote extensively on ancient civilizations of both East and West and the world of Tradition. |
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