Michelstaedter, Part 2

Previous: ⇐ Carlo Michelstaedter Part 1 Next: Giovanni Gentile ⇒ The is the second of two parts, in which Julius Evola details his intellectual debt to Carlo Michelstaedter. From Saggi sull’Idealismo Magico. In order to illuminate Michelstaedter’s central problem, it may be useful to connect the concept of insufficiency or … Continue reading

The Turd in the Punch Bowl

It will be useful to provide more concrete examples illustrating the difference between the consciousness formed by persuasion and that formed by rhetoric, as described by Carlo Michelstaedter. The End of Rhetoric There is an intellectual lust just as surely as there is sexual lust. Men get excited about hearing … Continue reading

The Pearl Tiara

A pearl tiara has a design and a structure. The pearls are arranged in a certain way, usually by size. It is built around precious metals and may include other gems. Although the quality of each individual pearl is important, the piece of jewelry achieves its beauty in its totality, not from any pearl in particular. Continue reading

Carlo Michelstaedter, Part 1

There is a man in whom the demand of the real individual toward absolute value, toward conviction, has been confirmed in the modern epoch, like a lightning flash and in a reality intense with life; this man, who in the clearest way, by shattering all compromises by which the I has been able to take life to its goal. Continue reading

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