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By Andrea Scarabelli
Translated by Sergio Knipe
Edited with a Foreword by Jafe Arnold
Featuring a Foreword by Alain de Benoist
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In his own lifetime and in ours, Julius Evola stands out as many lives in one. Philosopher and magician, scholar and warrior, writer and mountaineer, avant-garde artist and political visionary — Evola’s words and deeds defy all the boundaries of the modern landscape. In Julius Evola: An Adventurous Life, Andrea Scarabelli presents the first comprehensive biography of the legendary Italian Traditionalist, drawing on archival documents, correspondences, and testimonies from across Europe and beyond.
Undermining long-standing clichés and bringing to light previously unknown materials, Scarabelli’s chronicle of Evola’s adventures weaves together a dual geography: Evola’s ‘inner landscape’ of militant political and cultural undertakings guided by his quest for reviving sacred Tradition, and the ‘outer landscape’ of the 20th century’s turbulent transformations. This unprecedented biography traces Evola’s many paths — through newspaper offices and silent cloisters, Dionysian nightlife and Apollonian ascent, the frontlines of wars and the behind-the-scenes of political regimes and dissident movements.
Evola’s life resurfaces in all its complexity and vibrancy at the intersection of action and transcendence, confronting readers with the challenges of a life lived in pursuit of higher meaning against the grain of the modern world, yet in the very thick of it.
Table of Contents
Foreword to the English Edition by Jafe Arnold
Foreword to the French Edition by Alain de Benoist
Preface to the Italian Edition by Andrea Scarabelli
Prologue
1. Julius Evola’s Early Life (1898–1922)
2. Philosophy, Esotericism, and Politics (1923–1926)
3. Mornings of the Magicians (1927–1929)
4. Interregnum (1930–1934)
5. A European Secret Order (1935–1939)
6. The End of a World (1940–1943)
7. From One Italy to Another (1943–1948)
8. Forced Holidays (1949–1958)
9. Julius Evola’s Second Life (1959–1968)
10. Finis Coronat Opus (1969–1974)
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Andrea Scarabelli is an Italian editor, translator, and journalist. The head of the Philosophy division of the Italian branch of the Research and Study Group for European Civilisation (GRECE), he has collaborated with the University of Milan’s Chair of the History of Philosophy I, the School of Political Philosophy in Rome, and the Julius Evola Foundation. At the publishing house Edizioni Bietti in Milan, he serves as director of the magazine Antarès and the book series l’Archeometro and Minima Letteraria. Scarabelli contributed to the second volume of PRAV Publishing‘s Passages: Studies in Traditionalism and Traditions.
