Ride the Tiger

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-09-08
Publisher(s): Inner Traditions
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Summary

Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution

• Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age

• Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation

The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world. Everything that has come to predominate in the modern world is the direct antithesis of the world of Tradition, in which a society is ruled by principles that transcend the merely human and transitory.

Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our dissolute age examined in the light of the inner teachings of indestructible Tradition. Evola identifies the type of human capable of “riding the tiger,” who may transform destructive processes into inner liberation. He offers hope for those who wish to reembrace Traditionalism.

Author Biography

“Evola is one of the most interesting minds of the [world] war generation.”<br />

Table of Contents

Part 1: Orientations
1(15)
The Modern World and Traditional Man
2(6)
The End of a Cycle---``Ride the Tiger''
8(7)
Part 2: In the World Where God Is Dead
15(62)
European Nihilism---The Dissolution of Morals
16(4)
From the Precursors of Nihilism to the ``Lost Youth'' and the Protest Movement
20(7)
Disguises of European Nihilism---The Socioeconomic Myth and the Protest Movement
27(7)
Active Nihilism---Nietzsche
34(7)
``Being Oneself''
41(6)
The Transcendent Dimension---``Life'' and ``More Than Life''
47(7)
Beyond Theism and Atheism
54(6)
Invulnerability---Apollo and Dionysus
60(8)
Acting without Desire---The Causal Law
68(9)
Part 3: The Dead End of Existentialism
77(28)
Being and Inauthentic Existence
78(5)
Sartre: Prisoner without Walls
83(3)
Existence, ``A Project Flung into the World''
86(9)
Heidegger: ``Retreating Forwards'' and ``Being-for-Death''---Collapse of Existentialism
95(10)
Part 4: Dissolution of the Individual
105(24)
The Dual Aspect of Anonymity
106(6)
Destructions and Liberations in the New Realism
112(8)
The ``Animal Ideal''---The Sentiment of Nature
120(9)
Part 5: Dissolution of Consciousness and Relativism
129(20)
The Procedures of Modern Science
130(7)
Covering up Nature---Phenomenology
137(12)
Part 6: The Realm of Art---From ``Physical'' Music to the Drug Regime
149(22)
The Sickness of European Culture
150(3)
Dissolution in Modern Art
153(6)
Modern Music and Jazz
159(7)
Excursus on Drugs
166(5)
Part 7: Dissolution in the Social Realm
171(36)
States and Parties---Apoliteia
172(5)
Society---The Crisis of Patriotic Feeling
177(8)
Marriage and the Family
185(10)
Relations between the Sexes
195(12)
Part 8: The Spiritual Problem
207(22)
The ``Second Religiosity''
208(10)
Death---The Right over Life
218(11)
Notes 229(10)
Index 239

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