Metaphysics of War (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
171
Utgivningsdatum
2008-08-21
Upplaga
2 ed
Förlag
Integral Tradition Publishing
Illustrationer
front cover illustration
ISBN
9788792136015

Metaphysics of War

Battle, Victory and Death in the World of Tradition

av Julius Evola, John Morgan
Häftad,  Engelska, 2008-08-21

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In "Metaphysics of War", Evola considers the spiritual aspects of war in different spiritual traditions, including the Vedic, Iranian, Islamic and Catholic. In so doing he concludes that war can, in certain circumstances, have a 'sacred character' through which man may achieve self-realisation.This collection of essays is about war from a spiritual and heroic perspective. Evola selects specific examples from the Indo-European and Islamic traditions to demonstrate how traditionalists can prepare themselves to experience wars in a way that could allow them to transcend the limited possibilities of life in our materialistic age, entering the world of heroism, i.e., achieving a higher state of consciousness, an effective realisation of the meaning of life. His call to action, however, is not that of today's armies, which ask nothing more of their soldiers than to become mercenaries in the service of a decadent class. Rather, Evola presents the warrior as one who lives a cohesive and integrated way of life - one who adopts a specifically 'Aryan' view of the world, which sees the political aims of a war not as war's ultimate justification, but as being merely a means through which the warrior realizes his calling to a higher form of existence.

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Julius Evola, John Morgan

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Julius Evola (1898 -1974), Italian traditionalist, metaphysician, social thinker and activist. Evola is an authority on the world's esoteric traditions and one of the greatest critics of modernity. He wrote extensively on ancient civilizations of both East and West and the world of Tradition. Evola's principal works include Revolt Against the Modern World, The Mystery of the Grail, The Hermetic Tradition and Introduction to Magic.

Innehållsförteckning

1. The Forms of Warlike Heroism; 2. The Sacrality of War; 3. The Meaning of the Crusades; 4. The Greater War and the Lesser War; 5. The Metaphysics of War; 6. 'Army' as Vision of the World; 7. Race and War; 8. Two Heroisms; 9. Race and War: The Aryan Conception of Combat; 10. Soul and Race of War; 11. The Aryan Doctrine of Combat and Victory; 12. The Meaning of the Warrior Element for the New Europe; 13. Varieties of Heroism; 14. The Roman Conception of Victory; 15. Liberations; 16. The Decline of Heroism.

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