My next book is nearing its completion. God willing, later this spring it will be in bookstores.
Earlier this month we posted update 1, mentioning this book as being "in the pipe". -- And here is info in Swedish, with additional intresting links.
It still is. And the production is going forth with verve and pizzazz.
A few more details of the character of the upcoming work can be given.
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The research is mainly based on Evola's own works. Like Arte Astratta, Tiger, Rivolta, Ruins, Pagan Imperialism, Path of Cinnabar, Metaphysics of War, Meditations on the Peaks, et cetera et cetera.
Beyond that, especially one academic study, summarizing aspects of Evola's life, has been used: H. T. Hansen's 100-page foreword to Men Among the Ruins, the Inner Traditions-edition from 2002.
Hansen's text is mostly an enlightening philosophical overview.
But it lacks the traditional angle -- and this, I humbly say, is where my book comes in.
The upcoming Evola study will have a sort of inclination towards Tradition™, perennialism, primordial thought. That which Evola got from Guénon. And which completed his, Evola's, "Nietzschean Buddhism" into something more durable and profound.
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Moreover, a figure rather often occuring in the book is Ernst Jünger.
In one chapter I even compare the two, Evola and Jünger. Like them both being radicals of the mid-war period and later becoming paragons of conservatism.
I have the erudition to do this comparison since I'm also an expert on Jünger. See this volume. As I intmate in the new book, Jünger was rather wise and readable, but he lacked that perennial connection, that intitiated strain of Evola. Jünger falls short of the liberating influence of Eastern philosophy that does wonders to Evola's creed.
Jünger remains an icon for a radical conservative. No doubt about that. But Evola has a more lasting doctrine, a thought creating a richer esoteric tapestry.
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I could go on and on about Evola's beneficial opus. But that would be redundant. You can read all about it in the finished book. Which, so help med God, will be out later this spring.
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