Gornahoor

[Gornahoor]

There are many confluences of thought that have come together to make Pagan Imperialism. Understanding these influences will aid in understanding the standpoint of the book. This list will not go into detail, but will be a summary for later discussions.

Dadaism
Evola associated himself with this artistic movement early on, as it was compatible with his anti-bourgeois attitude. It is important to keep in mind that this attitude arises from a higher point of view, and not a lower one such as that of the Marxists.

Otto Weininger
Otto Weininger was an Austrian Jew who converted to Lutheranism. After completing his magnum opus "Sex and Characteer" -- quite influential at the time -- Weininger committed suicide. The dichotimies of Virile/Feminine and Aryan/Jew are important in Evola's works.

Carlo Michaelstaedter
Michaelstaedter was an Italian Jew who also committed suicide in his twenties. He emphasised the opposing concepts of Persuasian and Rhetoric, themes again taken up by Evola. Persuasian is an authentic mode of living arising from one's own beings, and Rhetoric is inauthentic, since its source is the other.

German Idealism
Evola learned German in order to study the German idealists such as Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling. Italian philosophy at that time was dominated by the two great idealists Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Gentile. We can also include in this group the French personalists, who are mostly forgotten today. Evola created his own version which he called "Magical Idealism".

Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche's influence was more of an attitude than doctrine -- his paganism, anti-Christianism, anti-bourgoisim. Evola rejected Nietzsche's naturalism.

Réné Guénon
The fundamental worldview of Réné Guénon was absolutely essential to Evola and they found fertile ground in Evola's mind. The specifics will be address in the forum "Gnosis" category.

Hermeticism, Alchemy, Buddhism and Tantrism
These traditions were more than academic interest to Evola. In his Ur and Krur groups, they experimented with various spiritual practices, not only from these traditions, but also others. Much of what Evola writes will be difficult to understand for anyone who hasn't made a similar effort.

Johan Bachofen
Bachofen's contrast of matriarchal and patriarchal societies was taken up by Evola.

Joseph de Maistre and Donoso Cortoso
These Catholic counter-revolutionary thinkers are quite important. Whilte obviously rejecting the dogmatic elements in their thought, Evola shared their affirmation of aristocratic order and their rejection of all revolutionary movements as well as Protestantism and Judaism.

Lao Tzu
Evola mentions the Taoist principle of wei-wu-wei, or acting-without-acting many times. Evola published a translation with commentary of the Tao Te Ching in Italy.

Max Stirner
To Stirner, Evola owes the idea of the Absolute ego and the idea that the free man creates concepts but stands above them.

Georges Sorel
Evola takes the concept of the power-idea from Sorel. The power-idea is a myth with the power to shape the consciousness of a people.

[Kamals]

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