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>>20170977
You need this OP

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>>18732259
You should read this, he wrote these essays in the 30s and 40s when he still believed in a political solution. And yes they were friends but friends don't necessarily have to agree on all accounts.

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>>18316098
You may also enjoy Metaphysics of War. My Nietzsche obsessed buddy who ran into the same problems as OP told me after reading that that Evola addressed all his issues with N.
Anyway it's too much of an open ended question and would require an essay, if you narrow it down I can get into it some more. Basically the metaphysical beliefs of the ancient Indo-Europeans.

>>18253832
This, great and inspiring read

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Any book is worth reading, if only to find out that you gained nothing from it.
But yes it's a great book, but not a great first Evola book. It assumes familiarity with Evola's brand of Traditionalism, as well as general modern philosophy / existentialism, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, etc.
If you want to see if Evola is for you, I'd recommend Metaphysics of War first.

>For the ancient Aryan war had the general meaning of a perpetual fight between metaphysical powers. On the one hand there was the Olympian principle of light, the uranic and solar reality; on the other hand, brute violence, the titanic-telluric, barbaric element in the classical sense, the feminine demonic substance. The motif of this metaphysical fight resurfaces continually through countless forms of myth in all traditions of Aryan origin. Any fight, in the material sense, was experienced with greater or lesser awareness as an episode in that antithesis. But the Aryan race considered itself to be the army of the Olympian principle: accordingly, it is necessary to restore this conception among Aryans, as being the justification, or the highest consecration, of any hegemonic aspiration, but also of the very idea of empire, whose anti-secular character is very obvious.

>>17153977
Yes, but not as your first Evola book. It's a pretty hard read if you're not familiar with either Evola or the existentialists and Nietzsche.
If you want to read Evola, start with "Metaphysics of War."