Research Catalog

Title

Ride the tiger : a survival manual for the aristocrats of the soul / Julius Evola ; translated by Joscelyn Godwin and Constance Fontana.

Author

Evola, Julius, 1898-1974.

Publication

Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Godwin, Joscelyn.
• Fontana, Constance.

Description

242 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, allow an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world. Everything that has come to predominate in the modern world is the direct antithesis of the world of Tradition, in which a society is ruled by principles that transcend the merely human and transitory. Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our dissolute age examined in the light of the inner teachings of indestructible Tradition. Evola identifies the type of human being capable of "riding the tiger"--An individual who may transform destructive processes into inner liberation-and, in so doing, offers hope for those who wish to reembrace Tradition. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Cavalcare la tigre. English

Alternative Title

Cavalcare la tigre.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Values
• Tradition (Philosophy)
• Philosophy, Modern > 20th century
• Philosophy, Modern
• traditionalism
• Moral conditions
• Traditie
• Ziel
• Bevrijding (algemeen)
• Europe > Moral conditions
• Europe

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The modern world and traditional man -- The end of a cycle : ride the tiger -- European nihilism : the dissolution of morals -- From the precursors of nihilism to the "lost youth" and the protest movement -- Disguises of European nihilism : the socioeconomic myth and the protest movement -- Active nihilism : Nietzsche -- Being oneself -- The transcendent dimension : "life" and "more than life" -- Beyond theism and atheism -- Invulnerability : Apollo and Dionysus -- Acting without desire : the causal law -- Being and inauthentic existence -- Sartre : prisoner without walls -- Existence, a "project flung into the world" -- Heidegger : "retreating forwards" and "being-for-death" : collapse of -- Existentialism -- The dual aspect of anonymity -- Destructions and liberations in the new realism -- The "animal ideal" : the sentiment of nature -- The procedures of modern science -- Covering up nature : phenomenology -- The sickness of European culture -- Dissolution in modern art -- Modern music and jazz -- Excursus on drugs -- States and parties : apoliteia -- Society : the crisis of patriotic feeling -- Marriage and the family -- Relations between the sexes -- The "second religiosity" -- Death : the right over life.

ISBN

• 0892811250
• 9780892811250

LCCN

2003012871

OCLC

• ocm52520258
• 52520258
• SCSB-9512745

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library