An interview with the Italian traditionalist Julius Evola surveying his life and work. He discusses his youthful involvement with Dada and Futurism, his studies of Buddhism and Hermeticism, Revolt Against the Modern World and his criticism of Marcuse, his relation to René Guénon, his critical stance toward Fascism and National Socialism, Ride the Tiger, the metaphysics of sex, and the distinction between initiatory and magical practice.
Julius Evola — 1 recording in the archive.
Related reading: Revolt Against the Modern World by Julius Evola.
Julius Evola, would you like to tell us about your origins, your youth, and your spiritual formation? My origins are a weapon. As for the purely geographical aspect, I don't shout out altered guides. As for my formation, to which my studies of officials, we had thematic debates of the East at the same time. Since my youth, I soon sealed philosophy, the mystical hotels, then unfolded the ten points of religions in this of Orientalism, a particular one, finally of the head or sepia which relates to traditional toxins on the basis of what kind of crêperie Ilina, a critique of current social Syria, and finally the last subject to which I devoted myself was sexology. This work was published in French, The Metaphysics of Sex. We know that you participated in your youth in the avant-garde movement. What were your relations with Futurism and with Dada during this period? The relationship with Futurism arises by itself. In this case, Italy only existed for Futurism, as in Damang, Arab, and I knew Marinetti, opting to spawn at Beyond the futuristic main, but closer, I noticed the pebbles, not a homogeneity between my orientation, which is futuristic, and to which Jacques, worn and his dynamism, because yes, I only come out of being of vital momentum with a chauvinism, attesting to the problematic future, all these things for my approach, the pines, and on the contrary, I was very touched almost immediately, Raymond, the mentalist, he tells me my rug, the war is a star, nineteen, well, I was in relation to crises like the one with which I get along well with the rail, and at that time I gave my contribution in the Eure in the field of painting, of poetry, for poetry, that is what is my previous training, president with or undoubtedly especially their course in France and symbolism and Rimbaud, Mallarmé, all this is quickly given peace, but I gave as a day the divisions, end of the very good with the saints, the terrain is he too had been a certain understanding for our misinterpreted on his daughter and from where he can be particularly of Dadaism not only as the artistic moment but as the sphere of everything, in any case, like the passages in a white space where the main interest is a kind of absolute deliverance and its mystical aspects rather…