Julius Evola

Julius Evola, Giulio Cesare Evola (1898-1974) was an Italian thinker influenced by the Traditionalist School.
Descended from a minor noble Sicilian family, he became interested very early on in philosophy and the avant-garde art forms of the time (Dadaism and futurism), as well as eastern spirituality and politics.
He began technical and mathematical studies but the First World War interrupted his education and he became a second-lieutenant in the Artillery instead.
A suicide attempt at 23 definitively changed his direction towards philosophical and esoteric enquiry and towards politics. As a consequence, he founded the “Ur Group” in 1927, whose aim was to research esoteric traditions outside Europe.
Reading the works of René Guénon was another pivotal point in his life and led him to give up his extremist ideas of “Pagan Imperialism” and focus on the ‘Integral Tradition’ instead. As a result, he founded a review called “La Torre”, which the fascist regime banned.

He is the author of a prolific and controversial body of work: “The Hermetic Tradition”, “Revolt against the Modern World”, “The Metaphysics of Sex”, “The Mystery of the Grail”, “Riding the Tiger”, “The Doctrine of Awakening” etc.