Book Review – ‘Men Among the Ruins by Julius Evola’ by Martin Schwarz.
Now, with “Men Among the Ruins,” the political Evola also enters the ruinous cultural landscape of America. The esoteric scene is already able to access the magistral “Introduction to Magic” (and with striking success, so we hear). Now comes the dynamite of Evola’s world view, packed in the warning colors of black and red. Happily it appears not from a marginalized publisher of the radical right, nor (unsurprisingly) from an academic publisher, but from an esoteric publishing house that is respectable (if somewhat New Age oriented), and Jewish owned. We mention this because it gives it a certain reassurance, which might delay the explosion. Another safety-mechanism, as Joscelyn Godwin aptly remarks in his Foreword, is the hundred-page introduction to Evola’s political thought by H. T. Hansen.The placement of a thinker in his historical and biographical context naturally relativizes the ideas that he advocates–however apodictically he may have expressed them. Read more…