Are there any writers I should check out before reading him to

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>>9201152
You could get an unsympathetic overview. But there seems to be a whole context to Evola. There was a bunch of intellectuals running around believing that the West needed a spiritual revival in the form of a new religion.

>>9201152
Nah, since Evola reestablishes old traditions and ideas, he either isolates and defines them on his own terms or you can easily look them up without any 'historical baggage' applied. But I'm sure some would disagree. idk, it's really only select thinkers and writers who require genealogical perspective, not all of them.

>>9201152
Your therapists notes would be a good start

>>9201254
Rofl, this.

>>9201238
Thanks.

>>9201238
He ought to read Guenon, though (particularly his critiques of the modern world).

>>9201152
Someone should make a fucking /lit/ wiki thread about this.

As I've posted many times, before you even go near him, make sure you have read plenty of Platonic philosophy, Nietzsche and the core works of De Maistre, Heidegger and Spengler.

Also I'd also recommend reading Rene Guenon's "Crisis of the Modern World" as a prerequisite too. Gives a good introduction into Traditionalist and Perennialist thought.

Then you might want to start with Metaphysics of War before you head into Revolt, but either way you should be set.

>>9201883
We could add Benedetto Croce as regards the aesthetic/poetics side, and Oswald Spengler

>>9201883
>De Maistre, Heidegger and Spengler.
lol

I mean, one should read Heidegger and Spengler anyway, but they have absolutely nothing to do with Evola.
>>9201152
Everything else he wrote. Revolt, Ruins and Ride the Tiger are the "finale" of his work so to speak.

>>9201974
Heidegger probably not so much but Spengler definitely yes, he influenced Evola.

And Heidegger is actually quite interesting to read along side Evola.

>>9202164
Spengler had nothing to do with Evola, a very superficial reading of their theories of history may forge a "connection", but it's really a matter of an organic/Goethean theory of history (Spengler) and of a hindoo/vedic cyclical theory of history (Evola). Personally I find Spengler a far more sophisticated, original and interesting thinker.