“In the 20th century, now, and in the forever future, we are unlikely to find a better spiritual guide than the immortal Baron of Sicily.”
— From the Foreword by James Kirkpatrick
In Pagan Imperialism, Julius Evola presents a fiery critique of the modern world, tracing the decay of Western civilization to its abandonment of its primal pagan roots. Evola condemns the rise of materialism, democracy, and equality, seeing them as signs of European man gone astray. He mourns the loss of the ancient spiritual hierarchy, where gods and warriors reigned supreme, and the cosmos pulsed with mystical energy.
Evola views Christianity as a weakening force that has replaced the proud, heroic spirit of paganism with submission and servitude to an alien deity. He envisions a revival of an empire built on the blood and fire of ancient rites, where the ruler embodies divine authority and the sacred order is restored. Pagan Imperialism is a provocative manifesto for those who dream of a return to a world rooted in the fierce, esoteric traditions of the past.
This new edition of Pagan Imperialism is a brand new translation by Heinrich Matterhorn, combining the original 1928 edition with the 1933 German edition. It also includes Evola’s extensive appendix. This edition is significantly longer than previous English translations and is enriched with detailed footnotes that provide definitions as well as commentary on different concepts and ideas mentioned in the text.
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Table of Contents
Foreword by James Kirkpatrick
Introduction by Dmitry Moiseev
Editor’s Note: The Rebirth of Pagan Imperialism
Publisher’s Foreword to the First Edition (1928)
Publisher’s Foreword to the German Edition (1933)
I. We, the Anti-Europeans
The Decline of Europe
The New Symbol
The Primordial Nordic-Solar Tradition
We Pagan Imperialists
Fascism as Anti-Europe
Protestantism and Romanity
Mediterranean Tradition vs. Christian Tradition
II. The Conditions for Empire
The Decline of the Imperial Idea
Will to Hierarchy
Catholicism and Romanity: Fascism at a Crossroad
Protestant Deviation and Our Counter-Reformation
The True Counter-Reformation
Catholic Mystifications: A Warning
III. The Democratic Error
True Liberalism
Hierarchy According to Power: The Conquest of the State
The Impossibility of Democratic Self-Government
Anti-Hegelianism
Anti-Mazzinianism
The Individual and Humanity
Totemism
The Irrationality of Equality
From Clan to Empire: Our Doctrine of Race
IV. The Roots of European Evil
Gold: Returning to the Castes
Science vs. Wisdom
“Those Who Know” and “Those Who Believe”
Mechanical Force and Individual Power
Faustian Activism and the “Human World”
V. Pagan Values and Christian Values
Christianity as Profane Intolerance
Christianity as Pessimism and Immoralism
The “Impurity” of Christian Practice
Jesus Is Not the Type of a God
Nietzsche, the Misunderstood
The True Pan-Europe
The Myth of the Two Eagles
Ghibelline Restoration
Foundational Perspective
Fascism against Christianity: The Great Liberation
VI. Polemical Appendix on Guelph Attacks against Pagan Imperialism
We Are Not Theosophists and We Are Not Freemasons
Our “Orthodoxy”
Confirmation of the Incompatibility between Romanity and Christianity
Even the Catholic Tradition Cannot Be Equated with the Roman Tradition
Julius Evola (1898–1974) was Italy’s foremost traditionalist philosopher, as well as a metaphysician, social thinker, and activist. Evola was an authority on the world’s esoteric traditions and one of the greatest critics of modernity. Arktos has previously published Metaphysics of War, Fascism Viewed from the Right, Notes on the Third Reich, A Traditionalist Confronts Fascism, A Handbook for Right-Wing Youth, Recognitions, The Bow and the Club, The Myth of the Blood and Metaphysics of Power. (Go to author page)
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