RidingTheTiger.org Remembers Julius Evola
19 May 2012
Julius Evola, was born on this day in 1898 in Rome. The descendant of a noble Sicilian family, he was named Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, and fought in World War I as an artillery officer on the Asiago plateau. In his early career, he was an artist, and briefly was a member of the futurist movement of Filippo Marinetti. In the inter-war period, he began his formal study of Oriental doctrines. Today, he is remembered as one of the main influences on the political arm of the Traditionalist school of thought, who influenced future luminaries such as the writer Herman Hesse, and the politicians Miguel Seranno and Alain de Benoist. For his own part, Evola was influenced by an eclectic host of ancient and modern thinkers, from Plato to Confucius, to Nietzsche to René Guénon. There exist some similarities [...]


