Julius Evola and the Radical Right

Spiritual Racism from Fascist Italy to the New Age

Julius Evola and the Radical Right examines the ideas and influence of Italian thinker Julius Evola (18981974), an increasingly popular author within the far right and the esoteric milieu alike.

Julius Evola and the Radical Right examines the ideas and influence of Italian thinker Julius Evola (18981974), an increasingly popular author within the far right and the esoteric milieu alike.

An iconic figure for successive generations of the radical right, Evola is both revered and reviled, but his past remains contested. Those seeking information about him are confronted with a fractured and contentious legacy. Drawing on the archival record and texts that Evola left behind, this book reconstructs his intellectual trajectory and examines his activities in Fascist Italy, in Nazi Germany, and in the neo-fascist movement after 1945. It demonstrates that Evola and h