Caduceus Books wrote:
Wow Ben - that's really cool -
guess it might also apply to Alain Danielou - who was at the very least
an elitist ??
which is wyrd when one considers he was also gay and therefore likely to
be victimised -
It's a bit of a dilemma what to do with otherwise crucial scholarship
(for example in Indology and Egyptology)
which is nevertheless tainted by the personal / political opinions of
the authors .
bb/93
mogg
> Greetings
>
> I disagree with the ethos of this journal.
>
> Julius Evola who "traditionalists" draw upon so much was a vicious
> anti-semite involved in marshalling Europe wide anti-Jewish propaganda
> in the run up to the Second World War. Despite the very modernist
> nature of Nazism and Fascism he sought and achieved close
> co-operation with both movements and their sister movements in other
> European countries.
>
> Of course Julius Evola, like other right wing, fascist and nazi
> esotericists, receives a great deal of attention as their are so many
> right wing racist occultists looking for heroes and an intellectual
> disguise for their prejudices.
>
> Also this kind of "traditionalism" promotes illusionary images of the
> past. Fantasies about homogenous, stable communities devoid of
> conflict when past societies experienced rapid change, immigration,
> emigration, cross-cultural fertilisation, technological change,
> conflict and class war just like ours.
>
> My best wishes
>
> Ben
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