Description
Volume II
The second volume of A Handbook of Traditional Living continues the project of the first: to resurrect perennial values for a Traditionalist lifestyle in an anti-Traditional world, and to provide concrete and desperately needed advice for those who wish to break free of the spell of a deadening and desert-like modernity.
Deeply inspired by Julius Evola, René Guénon, and the Traditionalism of which they were foremost exponents, A Handbook of Traditional Living: Style and Ascesis confronts the fundamental questions of family, friendship, work, genders and marriage, religion and spirituality, and what it means to be a militant of the Tradition in today’s increasingly confused and fragmented society. The result is a treasure trove of wisdom, concisely providing the practical and theoretical bedrock for the Traditionalist worldview and ethic in one’s day-to-day life, thereby giving new breath to a lifestyle, vision and philosophy that has too long been lacking from our world.
Volume I: A Handbook of Traditional Living: Theory & Practice
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Premise: Born Among the Ruins
Part One: General Orientations
- 1. The Path of Tradition
- 1.1 The Principles of Tradition
- 1.2 The Challenge of the Tradition
- 1.3 To Free Oneself from Masks
- 2. The Differentiated Man
- 2.1 Present-day Activism
- 2.2 Differentiated Action
- 2.3 Action Becomes Rite
- 2.4 The Holy War
- 3. The Two Races: Aristocracy and Democracy
- 3.1 Democracy and the Corruption of Man
- 3.2 The Traumatised Man and the Man of Elusive Race
- 3.3 Traditional Orientation: The Virtue of the Noble Man
- 4. The Path of Greatest Resistance
- 4.1 Individualism and Vitalism
- 4.2 The Doctrinal Points of Reference
- 4.3 The Elite: Hierarchy
- 4.4 Militancy and Desertion
Part Two: Vita Est Militare
- 5. The Family
- 5.1 The Decadence of the Traditional Model
- 5.2 The Militant and Relations with Parents
- 5.3 Marriage
- 5.4 Parenting
- 5.5 Responsible Choices
- 6. Relations between the Sexes
- 6.1 The Nature of the Sexes
- 6.2 Polarity and Complementarity of the Sexes
- 6.3 Woman: Gift and Dedication
- 6.4 Rectification of the Sexes
- 7. Confrontation with the World of Work
- 7.1 Work as Pain
- 7.2 Ernst Jünger’s Worker
- 7.3 Committing Oneself: Studying or Working
- 7.4 Craftsmanship and Farming
- 8. Youth, Between Alienation and Militancy
- 8.1 The Society of Men
- 8.2 The Flight from Reality and Life as ‘Nonsense’
- 8.3 Friendship and Camaraderie: Youths Among the Ruins
- 9. The Revolt against the World of the Masses
- 9.1 Contemporary Politics and the New World Order
- 9.2 Beyond an Anachronistic Vision
- 9.3 The Law of Elective Affinities
- 9.4 An Operational Method: The Three Planes
- 10. Spirit and Religiosity
- 10.1 Religions and Christianity
- 10.2 Neospiritualism
- 10.3 Neopaganism
- 10.4 Militancy and Religiosity
- Conclusions: Style Makes Action
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