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Ride the Tiger
6.5Julius Evola
Evola's 1961 guide for the aristocratic individual in an age of dissolution — the most influential text of twentieth-century Italian Traditionalism.
GBM Assessment (Score: 6.5/10)
Ride the Tiger represents Julius Evola's most fully developed guide for the individual who seeks to maintain spiritual integrity in an age of dissolution and materialism. Drawing on a wide range of esoteric and philosophical traditions, Evola argues for a posture of inner detachment—a 'spiritual aristocracy' that transcends the degraded conditions of modernity without retreating into nostalgia. The work remains a intellectually provocative and controversial texts in the Traditionalist philosophical canon.
The work was written in the aftermath of the Second World War, Ride the Tiger emerged from Evola's broader critique of liberal democracy, egalitarianism, and modern secularism. The book exercised considerable influence on the European New Right and various Traditionalist intellectual circles, making it a work whose reception is inseparable from the political controversies surrounding its author's legacy and associations.
Civil Rights & Cold War, 1960-1962
Civil Rights intensifies. Lee's Mockingbird wins the Pulitzer. The Cuban Missile Crisis brings nuclear brinkmanship. Solzhenitsyn's One Day appears during Khrushchev's thaw. Burgess publishes A Clockwork Orange. The Berlin Wall goes up. Vatican II begins. The Beatles release their first single.
Awards & Adaptations
Controversial. Influential in traditionalist circles.
Recommended Edition
Joscelyn Godwin & Constance Fontana (2003)
