Julius Evola
This book brings together twenty-eight articles by Julius Evola published between 1930 and 1958. The texts are arranged in three thematic sections: “Imperial Idea and the New European Order”, “Economy and Social Criticism”, “Germanism and Nazism”.
Devoted to a critique of modern nationalism, a redefinition of the idea of Empire, the question of a genuine “European right”, and an analysis of the spiritual and structural conditions of European unity, the first articles in this collection are part of the major metapolitical orientations. In the second part, the reader will find a highly valuable article on the little-known National Socialist concept of the corporation, as well as texts reflecting the debates of Fascist intellectuals on an important point: the “trial of the bourgeoisie”. Finally, in the third part, Evola analyses, sometimes very critically, several aspects of National Socialism: its völkisch and particularist nationalism, its biological racism, its “revolutionary” and “anti-Roman” excesses, its paganism and its links with the Reformation and the Enlightenment, its conception of the State, etc.
While it provides a better understanding of Evola’s itinerary and the nature of his metapolitical commitment between the wars, this collection is above all an irreplaceable source of information on the ideas discussed under Fascism and National Socialism. The incessant polemics surrounding the latter phenomenon testify above all to the appalling ignorance of official historiography regarding the sources and ideological references of National Socialism: hence the extreme interest of Evola’s articles, often written on the basis of first-hand documentation.