Giovanni Gentile — Part 3

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Next: Hermann Keyserling ⇒ This is the third and final installment of Julius Evola‘s commentary on Giovanni Gentile from Essays on Magical Idealism. Although it is highly technical, we can cut to the main point. First, there is the distinction between spontaneity and freedom. In a free act, “I” make … Continue reading →

Giovanni Gentile — Part 2

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Next: Giovanni Gentile Part 3 ⇒ In this section, Julius Evola deals with the nature of thought itself. Thought cannot be the object of thinking, since it would then be just another thought. Rather, there must be something that transcends thinking, the “non-rational”. Nevertheless, the non-rational is not the same … Continue reading →

Michelstaedter, Part 2

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Previous: ⇐ Carlo Michelstaedter Part 1 Next: Giovanni Gentile ⇒ The is the second of two parts, in which Julius Evola details his intellectual debt to Carlo Michelstaedter. From Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico. In order to illuminate Michelstaedter’s central problem, it may be useful to connect the concept of insufficiency or … Continue reading →

The Turd in the Punch Bowl

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It will be useful to provide more concrete examples illustrating the difference between the consciousness formed by persuasion and that formed by rhetoric, as described by Carlo Michelstaedter. The End of Rhetoric There is an intellectual lust just as surely as there is sexual lust. Men get excited about hearing … Continue reading →

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