Jason Thompkins <othala@...> wrote:
> Hello,
Do any Italians on this list or anybody in particular who has access
to most of Julius Evola's writings know what his position
of "Abortion" is? In other words, did he ever write of it and if so,
was he in favor or did he see it as a human act *against* celestial
activity?
I have yet to read "Ride the Tiger" (the English translation as
presented by Inner Traditions) so I would not know if this subject is
brought up in that book. I've just learned that Evola deals with
the "drug experience" in that book which was becoming popular at the
time. However, so was extreme-feminism and the so-called "Rights of
Women". It would be great if someone could kindly tell me if he
tackled this issue in "Ride the Tiger" (the issue being 'Women's
Rights', 'Pro-Choice/Pro-Abortion', and so forth).
I write this in full knowledge that this could have been, at most,
an 'American' moral issue and was not consuming Europe as it was
burning the tempers of our so-called 'old-fashioned', that is to say
mostly Southern Americans and also Catholic areas.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
J. Thompkins
= I do not remember a place in which Evola talks just about abortion; he looks to enclose it in the more general phenomenon of the Marxism and his freedom. Even so, the 5th chapter of the introduction of "Metafisica del sesso", entitled "Eros e istinto alla riproduzione" can provide some indirect insight.
Do any Italians on this list or anybody in particular who has access
to most of Julius Evola's writings know what his position
of "Abortion" is? In other words, did he ever write of it and if so,
was he in favor or did he see it as a human act *against* celestial
activity?
I have yet to read "Ride the Tiger" (the English translation as
presented by Inner Traditions) so I would not know if this subject is
brought up in that book. I've just learned that Evola deals with
the "drug experience" in that book which was becoming popular at the
time. However, so was extreme-feminism and the so-called "Rights of
Women". It would be great if someone could kindly tell me if he
tackled this issue in "Ride the Tiger" (the issue being 'Women's
Rights', 'Pro-Choice/Pro-Abortion', and so forth).
I write this in full knowledge that this could have been, at most,
an 'American' moral issue and was not consuming Europe as it was
burning the tempers of our so-called 'old-fashioned', that is to say
mostly Southern Americans and also Catholic areas.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
J. Thompkins
= I do not remember a place in which Evola talks just about abortion; he looks to enclose it in the more general phenomenon of the Marxism and his freedom. Even so, the 5th chapter of the introduction of "Metafisica del sesso", entitled "Eros e istinto alla riproduzione" can provide some indirect insight.
As for "Riding the tiger", I seem neither the chapter 27 and 28 are significative on the specific matter.
Anyway, Evola talks there of the crisis that is expecting the modern woman "when she will recognize how much those male jobs, for whom she fought so hard, have no sense, when the delusion and the euphony of her accomplished realizations will vanish, when from the other side, she will realize, because of the atmosphere of the dissolution, that family and progeny cannot give her a feeling of satisfaction in the life, while, because of the fall of the tension, even man and sex will not up to much for her, and will not mean, like for the traditional absolute woman, the natural centre of her existence, but only one of the ingredients of an existence lost and exteriorised into vanity, sport, narcissistic cult of the body, practical interests and so on."
Fulvio