>Julius Evola, the ultra-fascist Italian cultural philosopher, was eagerly read not only by Gottfried Benn, but also by Martin Heidegger as an unpublished note shows.
>The keyword of Martin Heidegger’s note is “race”; below that appears, in the handwriting of the philosopher, the following sentence: “Wenn eine Rasse die Berührung mit dem, was allein Beständigkeit hat und geben kann — mit der Welt des Seyns — verloren hat, dann sinken die von ihr gebildeten kollektiven Organismen, welches immer ihre Größe und Macht sei, schicksalhaft in die Welt der Zufälligkeit herab.” [“If a race has lost contact with what alone has and can give resistance — with the world of Beyng — then the collective organisms formed from it, whatever be their size and power, sink fatefully down into the world of contingency.”] The quotation is taken verbatim from the book Revolt Against the Modern World, which was first published in German in 1935; only the spelling of “Being” has been Heideggerized.
>The as yet unpublished excerpt could give new direction to the ongoing Heidegger controversy. Evola’s name does not appear in Heidegger’s published writings, and Heidegger scholarship has taken little notice of him. Even the Italian philosopher Donatella di Cesare does not mentions Evola in her book Heidegger, the Jews, the Shoah (2015). Yet textual comparisons suggest that Heidegger had not only read Evola, as this note indicates, but was also influenced by his ideas from the mid-thirties on, from his critique of science and technology, his anti-humanism and rejection of Christianity, to his “spiritual” racism. If this thesis is correct, then perhaps one could view the late Heidegger as a radical fascist esotericist who hoped that rule by a spiritual elite would bring about the reappearance of the gods.
For me this raises the question of whether they can be a reconciliation between Traditionalism and phenomenology. Both of them are very much concerned with the problem of modernity and both make powerful critiques of it from their own points of view. As an enjoyer of Guénon and Evola, I have to admit that I've always thought Traditionalism was somewhat epistemologically naive in the sense that it mostly tries to handwave away the epistemological problems raised by the moderns. Phenomenology on the other hand, at least in the hands of Husserl and Heidegger, remains metaphysically impotent and doesn't even get to consider the phenomena of higher levels of being, although this issue was somewhat rectified by Corbin.
What do you think? Can there be a reconciliation between the two?>>24013100 great everything I hate in one post>>24013100 >away the epistemological problems raised by the moderns Is this a reference to Kant's division between noumena and phenomena or something else?
