Julius Evola

Julius Evola (born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, 1898 to 1974) was an Italian philosopher and writer of the far right who presented his values as traditionalist, aristocratic and imperialist. Born in Rome, he served as an artillery officer in the First World War, worked as a Dada artist, and left painting in his twenties for philosophy and the occult. He wrote on Western esotericism and Eastern mysticism and developed a doctrine he called magical idealism, blending German idealism, Eastern doctrines, traditionalism and the interwar Conservative Revolution. He held that mankind lives in the Kali Yuga, a dark age of materialism, and called for a return to a world of Tradition built on authority, hierarchy and order. He supported the Italian racial laws, was paralysed by a shell fragment in Vienna in 1945, and after the war became an ideological mentor of the Italian radical right.