Impossible? I think not...
I am no amateur post-modernist twit, thank you...
I know the intellectual strains of Evolian metaphysics by heart and in
depth--primal aniconic Roman spirituality; Hellenic Orphic-Pythagoreanism and
Hermeticism; Plotinian, theurgic neo-Platonism; certain Indo-Aryan, non-dualist
spiritual forms, and, in my view, Evola's greatest blunder of thinking,
synthesizing in his world-view a barbarized "Left Hand Path" Tantric
antinomianism, akin to terrorist "Kali-Yuga" Thuggery in essence;
Oriental-Chinese Taoism, and Chinese alchemy; Samurai-Zen; feudal classical
imperial Ghibelline political philosophy of Caesaro-Papal "Melchizedek";
maverick Catholic medieval theologians of esoteric bent, e.g. Eckhart, Tauler,
Silesius, etc.; then Germanic and European Transcendentalist neo-Kantian and
post-Kantian Idealism (G. Vico, Fichte, Schlegel, Schelling...Novalis--Novalis
intellectually engaged in "Magical Idealism" decades before Evola--Schopenhauer,
etc., up to Crocean neo-Hegelian Idealism, and so on); Italy-modulated,
Rosicrucian Masonry and Blavatskyian Theosophy, the "root race" concept of
Blavatsky crucial for Evola's own "spiritual racism"--no matter his verbal
denials, if uttered (and Aryosophic bits from von List and von Liebenfels--thus
Haeckelian monist pantheism); varieties of neo-Manichean intellectual
stimulations, and "anti-socialist" neo-Gnosticism; apocalyptic-Judaic mythic
lore of "Enochian Luciferianism," or Titanist/"Faustian" Promethean-type
"Satanism", of stridently anti-fideist, anti-theist tendency and Voluntarist in
mentality--"Satanism" is an ellipsis for lack of better words; Rosicrucian
Guenonianism as central philosophic axis; certain variants of *contemporary*
Christian-Catholic mysticism and esotericism; the Counter-Enlightenment
ideological tradition of de Maistre, D. Cortes, etc.; O. Spengler, and his
anti-Utopian counter-revolutionist pessimism; the neo-Platonist, Kantian sexual
teaching of Otto Weininger; ambivalent, subconscious internalization of
crypto-Stirnerite and Nietzschean thought; Dadaist pseudo-philosophizing;
Bachofen in mythology; Eliadean and neo-Jungian traces in "spiritual"
phenomenology; ETC.!
What I am asking is *how would 'normal' scholars of philosophy and philosophical
history categorize, even conceptualize, Evola, in his core philosophy?*
Evola is unique, but not a cosmic anomaly...
Is Schelling a bad place to start...?
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, Asdfasdsfdas Sfsdf <andreforcordelia@...>
wrote:
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> Your question is basically impossible to answer.
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> The closest thing to understanding the intellectual strains of Evola's major
works would be to read "The Path of Cinnabar."
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> Everything else is amateur deconstructionism.
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> ________________________________
> From: R.P. <brightimperator@...>
> To:
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 10:43 PM
> Subject: [evola_as_he_is] Re: Evolian Meta-Philosophy
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> I am not a Heidegger guy--except where Heidegger resonates with medieval
theology. Anyway--"neo-Idealism" is just a term--is "post-Kantian Idealism" less
unsuitable? Words, semantics... But Evola, in spite of his Eastern and medieval
spiritual education , I believe is following the specific Germanic
transcendentalist Idealism somewhere near SCHELLING, and squeezing it strongly
for the last drop of insight...
>
> Vico...Schelling..."trans-rationalistic rationalism" of the Eliadian
phenomenologist of Numinous experience...theosophically-filtered,
esoteric-Hyperborean "neo-Theosophia"...? Evola outdid Fichtean subjectivist
solipsism in his "magical Idealism" already, deepening matters...so...where
exactly does he belong, analytically...?
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> Heck, at least I didn't call Evola a "neo-Stirnerian, neo-Sorelian Nietzschean
pathological case" like some academic idiots...
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> I lament Heidegger's failure to uphold transcendent, arch-principial reality
against the ravages of Judaic demoplutocratic intellectual demolition,
neo-Gramscian contagion of sub-humanism, and techno-capitalist, materialist
Nihilism. The de-souled mechanization of life only needed to be answered by
aggressive counter-assertion of qualitative spiritual imagination. Heidegger is
a tangled bog--regressive elements vying with superior elements...Nietzschean
romanticism interwoven with Eckhartian apophatic negativistic theology of the
Middle Ages...
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> --- In
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, Asdfasdsfdas Sfsdf <andreforcordelia@>
wrote:
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> > What is "neo-idealism?"
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> > Do you meantranscendental Idealism like Kant and Fichte?
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> > Let me guess, you are a Heidegger-guy?
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> > That would be the only way this pointed question could be understood in a
way that it could be responded to.
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> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: R.P. <brightimperator@>
> > To:
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 10:01 AM
> > Subject: [evola_as_he_is] Evolian Meta-Philosophy
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> > Evola derives Tradition from pure integral metaphysical Being itself; yet
humanly, the locus of Evola in mundane philosophic history is best characterized
how...? Evola continues continental neo-Idealism almost to the point of
outpacing it...and then his "static gnosis of platonic being" seems to suggest
his neo-Plotinian main impetus...
> >
> > How would the erudite moderator describe the place of Evola in terms of the
philosophy of existence and Western thinking...? Thx for your time.
> >
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