{"product_id":"revolt-against-the-modern-world-politics-religion-and-social-order-in-the-kali-yuga-9780892815067","title":"Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga","description":"With unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world. As a gadfly, Evola spares no one and nothing in his survey of what we have lost and where we are headed. At turns prophetic and provocative, \u003ci\u003eRevolt against the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e outlines a profound metaphysics of history and demonstrates how and why we have lost contact with the transcendent dimension of being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe revolt advocated by Evola does not resemble the familiar protests of either liberals or conservatives. His criticisms are not limited to exposing the mindless nature of consumerism, the march of progress, the rise of technocracy, or the dominance of unalloyed individualism, although these and other subjects come under his scrutiny. Rather, he attempts to trace in space and time the remote causes and processes that have exercised corrosive influence on what he considers to be the higher values, ideals, beliefs, and codes of conduct--the world of Tradition--that are at the foundation of Western civilization and described in the myths and sacred literature of the Indo-Europeans. Agreeing with the Hindu philosophers that history is the movement of huge cycles and that we are now in the Kali Yuga, the age of dissolution and decadence, Evola finds revolt to be the only logical response for those who oppose the materialism and ritualized meaninglessness of life in the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough a sweeping study of the structures, myths, beliefs, and spiritual traditions of the major Western civilizations, the author compares the characteristics of the modern world with those of traditional societies. The domains explored include politics, law, the rise and fall of empires, the history of the Church, the doctrine of the two natures, life and death, social institutions and the caste system, the limits of racial theories, capitalism and communism, relations between the sexes, and the meaning of warriorhood. At every turn Evola challenges the reader's most cherished assumptions about fundamental aspects of modern life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA controversial scholar, philosopher, and social thinker, JULIUS EVOLA (1898-1974) has only recently become known to more than a handful of English-speaking readers. An authority on the world's esoteric traditions, Evola wrote extensively on ancient civilizations and the world of Tradition in both East and West. Other books by Evola published by Inner Traditions include \u003ci\u003eEros and the Mysteries of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yoga of Power\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hermetic Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Doctrine of Awakening\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Inner Traditions International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892815067\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.33h x 6.40w x 1.40d","brand":"Julius Evola","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36645749653660,"sku":"9780892815067","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_65b93848-4dbf-402c-9d9f-e3836c1d1680.jpg?v=1603861998","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/revolt-against-the-modern-world-politics-religion-and-social-order-in-the-kali-yuga-9780892815067","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}