Ride the Tiger

A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul

Julius Evola (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2003
Inner Traditions Bear and Company (Verlag)
978-0-89281-125-0 (ISBN)

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Julius Evola’s final major work, 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 civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes 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 Tigerpresents 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 reembrace Tradition.

Julius Evola (1898-1974) was one of the leading authorities on the world’s esoteric traditions and wrote extensively on ancient traditions and hermeticism. Among his other works published by Inner Traditions are Men Among the Ruins, Introduction to Magic, The Mystery of the Grail, The Hermetic Tradition, and Eros and the Mysteries of Love.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.10.2003
Übersetzer	Joscelyn Godwin, Constance Fontana
Verlagsort	Rochester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	0-89281-125-0 / 0892811250
ISBN-13	978-0-89281-125-0 / 9780892811250
Zustand	Neuware