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Pagan Imperialism and Metaphysics of War by Julius Evola, Cologero Salvo is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Pagan Imperialism and Metaphysics of War about?
Julius Evola's Pagan Imperialism was originally published in 1928 in Italy. A greatly revised edition was prepared for publication in Germany in 1932. This translation is based on the second German edition. In addition, an Appendix has four essays that expand on the idea of "Roman Traditionality" and the role of mythology as the key to unlocking the past. These essays, originally written by Evola during the 1930s and '40s, deal with war from a spiritual and heroic perspective. Evola selects specific examples from the Nordic, Vedic, Roman, Persian, Islamic and other traditions to demonstrate how traditionalists can prepare themselves to experience war in a way that will allow them to overcome the limited possibilities offered by our materialistic and degraded age, thereby transcending the Age of Kali and entering the world of heroism by achieving a higher state of consciousness, which Evola depicts as an effective realisation of the ultimate purpose of life. His call to action, however, is not that of today's armies, which ask nothing more of their soldiers than to become mercenaries in the temporary employ of a decadent class. Still less is it a call to misdirected or nihilistic vi
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julius Evola, Cologero Salvo
- Publisher
- Wewelsburg Archives
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780999086001
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Science, Religion
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (25 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14