----- Original Message -----From: EvolaSent: Monday, February 11, 2013 12:11 AMSubject: [evola_as_he_is] Re: French Evolian journalsThose three publications were either initiated or taken over in the mid-1970 by G. Gondinet, who, in join venture with a woman named Fabienne Pichard du Page, would set up in 1982 Les éditions Pardès, a publishing house which specialised in esoteric books, and which jumped on the `New Age' bandwagon at the right time, from a financial standpoint. For years, the catalogue those who were on their mailing list received every three months stated as a preamble that there were `passive people' and `active people', the former being those who did not buy their books.
Those three publications claimed to channel Evola's thought and had as contributors French translators of J. Evola's books, such as P. Baillet and G. Gondinet – C. Mutti, and a raft of female writers. `Rebis' was subtitled « révolution sexuelle et tradition », and advocated a « rightist feminism ». `Rebis'' editors, who had nothing against homosexuality, were closely, shall we say intimately, connected with C. Bouchet, a fan of A. Crowley who, from Nantes, collaborated on it. Various articles of very unequal value on J. Evola were published in `Totalité', which was reviewed by G. Gondinet and P. Baillet, and whose preferred topics included Islam, chivalry, `Nazi-Maoism', paganism, and the `New Right'. B. Marillier, the author of an excellent study on the swastika (http://www.scribd.com/doc/43549738/Le-Svastika-Petite-Bibliotheque-Des-Symboles-par-Bernard-Marillier), was one of the three editors of `Kalki'.
Those three publications were characterised by a total lack of criticism, whether internal or external, of `traditionalist' sources in general and of J. Evola's writings in particular.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "G. van der Heide" wrote:
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> In terms of quality and content, how would one evaluate the legacy of the French Evolian journals such as Totalité, Rebis and Kalki? Rebis is said to deal with 'sexual politics'; did it include any topics that weren't discussed in Evola's 'Metafisica del sesso'?
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